Heads up to youngsters reading this old codger wisdom. Regarding the “time out” actually as a pilot I call it a pre flight checklist. Correct patient, correct surgeon, etc etc if laterality involved, side marked in holding area to which patient and surgeon agree. But also on check list is “everything in room to do the operation”... that is where the mean old surgeon says “show me the heart valve” before patient is asleep. To be sure the administrators haven’t moved the goalposts again.
Heads up to youngsters reading this old codger wisdom. Regarding the “time out” actually as a pilot I call it a pre flight checklist. Correct patient, correct surgeon, etc etc if laterality involved, side marked in holding area to which patient and surgeon agree. But also on check list is “everything in room to do the operation”... that is where the mean old surgeon says “show me the heart valve” before patient is asleep. To be sure the administrators haven’t moved the goalposts again.
We ran into that drug substitution st the VA all the time because the pharmacists are in control.
But their best weapon is if we keep silence and not say anything. Keep it up Primo