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Originally Posted by FrankRN
This is actually a national standard which is supposed to be done to ALL patients before ANY surgery. I have personally seen physicians, especially residents, who are running behind or sick of waiting, roll a patient themselves down to an OR instead of waiting for the staff. It must be tough to be so important that the rules don't apply to them.
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Standard here as well.........don't ask me how many legs, arms and other pairy organs I have X-ed during my four months in surgery. And how many thryroids I have marked. In fact the edding-pen was my best friend.
Here all patients have to wear wristbands now with their name on, they get marked. Before surgery starts the anaesthesiologist checks everything once, then the surgeon in charge checks a second time and has to fill in a document before first cut.
And now they have also made a new "minute to think before first cut" rule.......once all are on/at the table there is a minute of waiting before the first cut to do one last check.........great option for me to flirt with the cute guy from anaesthesiology- although I have a hunch it was not meant for that.
