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Surgical Time Outs in a Combat Zone
Author(s) -
Harrington Jason W.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
aorn journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1878-0369
pISSN - 0001-2092
DOI - 10.1016/j.aorn.2008.07.016
Subject(s) - documentation , medicine , chart , commission , general surgery , medical emergency , surgery , computer science , political science , law , statistics , mathematics , programming language
ABSTRACT AORN supports the Joint Commission's requirements and guidelines to promote correct site surgery, including preoperative verification, site marking, and conducting and documenting a surgical time out. This article highlights the success of a well‐implemented surgical time out policy and procedure at a two‐bed combat support hospital in northern Iraq. Policy implementation, training, documentation, and quality management chart checks prevented any incidence of wrong site surgery through the completion of more than 900 procedures on more than 400 patients during a 15‐month period. AORN J 89 (March 2009) 535–537. © AORN, Inc, 2009.