First Time Scrubbing: Cutting the Pump Line Without Clamping It

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Margaret Vance, MSN, RN, CNOR, NPD-BC, Clinical Nurse Education Specialist- Operating Room, Penn Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, shares the time scrubbed in a cardiac case and cut the pump line without clamping it first. As she says, “Yes. Mortified.”

 

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