Legal Issues In The Operating Room

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Legal issues in the operating room. As an otolaryngologist with a busy surgical practice you spend a good deal of time in the operating room and understand the special ethical challenges that this patient care center can pose for surgeons and staff. Legal issues toledo plastic surgeon accused of drugging and raping women march 8 2020 admin 0. There are many ways that a patient can develop a post operative infection. Not all operating room issues require complicated fixes.

Pre op procedures create issues that go unobserved before the surgery such as nicks and scratches in an area that had been shaved. Playing music in the operating room. Playing music in the operating room has been a common practice for nearly 100 years. You are the chair of your medical center s ethics committee and director of the hospital s ethics consultation service.

Surgeons physician assistants anaesthesia providers theatre nurses scrub and circulatory staff recovery. One method of support is the provision of an educational program for personnel in the operating room. The operating room nurses experienced threats to safe nursing when they lacked time for the patients as well as for their own recovery and they lacked feedback in order to improve care. They spoke at a harvard sponsored patient safety conference in the summer of 2009 about the benefits and risks of improving surgeries by putting cameras in operating rooms.

This legal report features the second in a series of excerpts from a presentation by a physician and a medical malpractice defense attorney.