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Hi, what are people using to protect hands when patient is in lithotomy and will be having a laparoscopic ...
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Does anyone have a weight based dosing resource for use with pediatrics? Specifically looking for max local ...
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When doing surgery on inpatients does your hospital complete the pre-op on the inpatient unit and transport the ...
Thomas,
I can only speak for my site, as I have only worked in the surgical services area at my current site. Our ...
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Hello all. I am new to adult perioperative nursing (worked in Pediatrics for 19.5 years). Does anyone have a ...
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Good day everyone, I am sure many of you are experiencing the same challenges that we are here in our small Critical ...
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To ensure Surgical Site Marking on patients who are darker skinned and where the site marking is not as visible. ...
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Has anyone experienced or heard of instances with overloading a circuit breaker intraoperatively? If so, was ...
Either have an electrician wire 240 V or create a room layout binder of the OR room for different cases/scenarios, ...
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Are PTFE pledgets that are non radiopaque used as suture bolsters considered to be countable?
Stacey Brown
Sep '21
Hi Jeanette, I live in Winnipeg Manitoba. One of my surgeons uses a pledget on his proximal anastomoses for an open ...
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How does your facility mark for laterality for sinus surgery? We are having discussion about this. Currently our ...
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Find out the latest information for respiratory protection from NIOSH and other federal agencies. Note that ...
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What does your facility's policy state in regards to counting during an emergency? If an initial count was not done ...
Catherine Jennings
Aug '21
Hi JG
Here is what our Policy says:
EMERGENCY CASES:
a. It may be necessary to forego the accepted count policy and ...
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We are a four room OR and the fire extinguisher is located in the core. During an intraoperative fire time is ...
Sherry Fetch
Sep '21
Yes. We have in each OR Suite.
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Hello, I have a question in reference to the updated recommendation from AORN in November 2020 on the monitoring of ...
Donna McMullen
Aug '21
We do pre-op blocks for many cases. These injections happen in a pre-op holding area and the patients are monitored ...
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At your facility, do you perform an instrument and soft count on closing both the uterus and peritoneum?
Theresa Loechner
Aug '21
Hi,
per AORN you are to count before closing a hollow organ.
per AORN you are to count before closing a hollow organ.
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When ureteral stents are placed to identify ureters in various surgical procedures who removes these stents ...
Chona Nedoroski
Jul '21
Are you referring to who documents the removal of ureteral stents prior to leaving the OR?
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