Wednesday 17 June 2015

Wrong-Site Surgery, Retained Surgical Items, and Surgical Fires

"Current estimates for wrong-site surgery and retained surgical items are 1 event per 100 000 and 1 event per 10 000 procedures, respectively, but the precision is uncertain, and the per-procedure prevalence of surgical fires is not known. "

Wrong-Site Surgery, Retained Surgical Items, and Surgical Fires: A Systematic Review of Surgical Never Events 
S Hempe et al.
JAMA Surgery June 10, 2015. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2015.0301

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