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Universal Protocol for Surgical Safety by andryshev is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document outlines a policy for preventing wrong patient, wrong procedure, and wrong site surgeries. It details 8 steps in the surgical process: 1) patient identification, 2) surgical site marking, 3) pre-op verification, 4) regional anesthesia verification and timeout, 5) sign in, 6) timeout, 7) pre-incision verification, and 8) sign out. At each step, specific procedures are followed to ensure the correct patient, procedure, and site through identification checks, markings, and timeouts involving the

Author

andryshev

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EN