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There’s a significant problem in many operating rooms across the United States: Electrosurgical devices can cause significant patient burns and life-threatening fires...
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By: Paula Watkins
Published: 10/28/2008
I am by no means promoting the consumption of alcoholic beverages, but everyone has to unwind after a day in surgery, and some, to quote an old line, find that liquor is quicker. Personally, I don't have an extensive knowledge of libations, but a recent cocktail-hour conversation with my OR friends Haley and Bird opened my eyes to the multitude of concoctions available at day's end. Given the drinks' colorful names - some printable, some not - I realized that whatever their inventors were thinking, it was possible that they had surgical nursing in mind. Cheers!
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