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Avoiding Common Surgical Errors
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  • Avoiding Common Surgical Errors
  • Written by author Lisa Marcucci
  • Published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, October 2005
  • This pocket book lists 186 errors commonly made by attendings, residents, interns, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants when working with surgical patients on the ward or in the operating room, emergency room, or intensive care unit. The book can
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  1. Tube, Drain, Line, and Catheter Snafus

  2. Emergency Room Snafus

  3. Operating Room Snafus

  4. Ward Snafus

  5. Laboratory Snafus

  6. Medication Snafus

  7. Surgical Subspecialty Snafus

  8. Miscellaneous Snafus

  9. Have a high index of suspicion for incarcerated or strangulated hernia if a patient has a bowel obstruction and no previous abdominal surgery

  10. Consider aortic injury or thoracic great vessel injury if a patient has fractures of the first or second ribs

  11. Evaluate the patient for mediastinal or heart injuries if a sternal fracture is present

  12. Admit a knee dislocation for observation if an arteriogram is not performed to rule out popliteal artery injury

  13. Have a high index of suspicion for nerve injures in humeral fractures and dislocations

  14. Look for a rupturing or dissecting aneurysm with any patient who complains of flank pain

  15. Make the opening sufficiently wide to adequately drain and pack the cavity when performing an incision and drainage of an abscess

  16. Promptly dispose of your own sharps after doing a bedside or emergency room procedure

  17. Close the galea as a separate layer when repairing a full thickness laceration to the scalp.

  18. Treat crepitus on physical exam as a surgical emergency that requires definitive debridement in the operating room

  19. Do not shave the eyebrow when repairing a laceration to this area

  20. Do not rule out intraabdominal trauma by clinical exam if the patient is intoxicated or has altered sensorium

  21. Do not allow a "negative CT" to prevent you from taking a case of suspected appendicitis to the operating room if the diagnosis is supported clinically

  22. Do not remove a knife that is penetrating tissue unless you have a direct intraoperative vision and control

  23. Avoid undue traction on the left renal vein to expose the neck of an aortic aneurysm

  24. Do not hesitate to convert a laparoscopic cholecystectomy to an open cholecystectomy

  25. Use the left side when harvesting a full-thickness skin graft from the groin area or lower abdomen

  26. Remember when reviewing Doppler ultrasound results that the superficial femoral vein is a component of the "deep" venous system

  27. Consider gastric dilatation when a patient is having respiratory difficulty

  28. Do not debride a dry/black eschar overlying a decubitus ulcer in a bedridden patient that has no evidence of underlying cellulitis

  29. Consider an addisonian state if it "looks like sepsis and smells like sepsis" but you can not identify a causative microbe.

  30. Go above the rib when placing a chest tube or needle into the chest cavity

  31. Prescribe Lactobacillus (or other probiotic therapy) when a patient receives any dose of antibiotics

  32. Make sure the heparin is removed from the intravenous flushes if a patient is diagnosed with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia

  33. Obtain a pregnancy test on every female between the ages of ten and fifty years.

  34. Do not call the anesthesiologists or nurse anesthetists “anesthesia” or “Dr. Anesthesia”


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