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Preventing the Unthinkable: The Truth About Wrong-Site Surgeries |Episode 12
Wrong-site surgery is considered a never event, yet it continues to occur when verification systems, communication, and human performance fail at the same time.
In Episode 12, Preventing the Unthinkable: The Truth About Wrong-Site Surgeries, Michelle Carroll explores the clinical and operational breakdowns that can allow surgery to be performed on the wrong patient, wrong body part, or wrong side. The discussion considers how clinical decisions, documentation practices, communication failures, and system conditions may affect patient safety, liability, and causation.
This episode examines…
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