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Gene therapy: Your questions answered (19 July 2018)
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Rare diseases
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Swab safe management to prevent retained swabs
Kathy Nabbie posted an article in Improving systems of care
It happened on a Saturday, 19.30pm, in April 2012. I was the theatre coordinator. We had a 'never event' of a retained swab in a breast wound. The following week, I changed practice following audits for four weeks in eight theatres. We never looked back. Attached is the poster presented in November 2016 at the Patient First Excel conference. Until recently no one ever asked me how I felt. I knew what to do. But I felt for the surgeon. As theatre scrub practitioners we complete counts and inform the surgeon. He acknowledges the count. If later on a swab is retained, it's the surgeon w- Posted
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