10 Worst Medical Treatment Dangers: 2013 ...not CLL specific but interesting

[Cllcanada]

Texting while in Surgery?

medscape.com/features/slide...

[HAIRBEAR_UK Founder Admin]

3% reporting that they visited social networking sites during procedures takes the biscuit? Are they doing this at the table? Many distractions noted, but how sterile are personal phones?

[sparkler]

Never thought about surgical fires before - Is nowhere safe? Shudder! X

[Newdawn Administrator]

I can't open the link but surgical fires reminded me of a colleague many years ago who had a minor op on her hand involving a general anaesthetic. Rather foolishly she decided to sneak a smoke in the bathroom. In her groggy state she accidentally set her inflammable bandages on fire and rushed out screaming for help. Her ward companion was a lady with dementia who wasn't taken too seriously at the nurse's station when she reported a lady as 'being on fire'. Thankfully she managed to plunge it into water and put out the flames but her day surgery turned into a much longer stay for skin grafts on her hand.

Yes I'm ashamed to say I did laugh! (but only when I realised she wasn't badly hurt). The dangers of illicit post operative smoking!

Newdawn x

[Cllcanada Top Poster CURE Hero]

Boogles the mind...

If 3% actually ADMIT they have accessed social media while in surgery, what is the actual number? Double?

My fear is IV pump timing errors... but I noticed recently that one nurse sets it and a second nurse comes along and verifies the settings... this is new...