This article addresses three of the events associated with surgery: retained surgical items, surgical fires, and wrong-site surgery. All three events are rare in relation to the enormous number of surgeries performed every year in the US.
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Related Topics: Surgery, Communication, Sentinel Event, Surgical Fire
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