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Re: Marking surgical site for c/s and BTL From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com) Fri May 2 20:23:09 2003 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: Marking surgical site for c/s and BTL" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: low match rate/Apologies to Warren Pearce" In reply to: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: Marking surgical site for c/s and BTL" Next in thread: Gail Waldby: "Re: Marking surgical site for c/s and BTL" how about a prominent "You Are Here" sign? art At Fri, 2 May 2003, Efrain Ramirez wrote: > >That should apply to the heart surgeons also :) > >>At Fri, 2 May 2003, Jane Helwig, MD wrote: >> >>Our hospital has been told by a JCAHO surveyor that marking the surgical >>site for those surgeries with a possible left or right approach (i.e. >>breast biopsy) is not enough. Now the surgeon is to mark the surgical >>site, prior to the patient going to the OR, for our cesarean section and >>postpartum tubal ligation patients as well. Apparently AORN thinks this >>is overkill but the JCAHO surveyor seemed to think we should begin to do >>it now. >> >>Even though it is Friday, I am having trouble conjuring up a situation >>in which marking the surgical site for a c/s or BTL would prevent an >>error. Anybody else heard of this? >> >>Common sense seems in short supply. >> >>-- >>Jane Helwig, MD, FACOG >>Private practice, 2 MDs, 1 CNM >>Franktown, VA >> >-- >"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction >that something will turn out well, but the certainty >that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out." > >Václav Havel (b. 1936), Czech playwright, president. > -- art fougner, md ich bin ein New Yorker Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: Marking surgical site for c/s and BTL" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: low match rate/Apologies to Warren Pearce" In reply to: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: Marking surgical site for c/s and BTL" Next in thread: Gail Waldby: "Re: Marking surgical site for c/s and BTL"

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