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By: OSD Staff
Published: 6/30/2014
BUSINESS, NOT PERSONAL Outsmart Their Smart Phones
The smart phone might be the most dangerous and distracting tool in the OR today. We've seen enough examples of anesthesia providers who were surfing the Web and texting during cases to know that this a major safety issue in surgery. Witness the Seattle anesthesiologist accused of sending hundreds of sexually explicit text messages and X-rated "selfies" while on duty (tinyurl.com/m9b898f) and the Dallas anesthesiologist who admitted he was too busy surfing the Internet and posting on Facebook to notice the patient's low blood-oxygen levels until 15 or 20 minutes after she'd turned blue (tinyurl.com/kl3d9l5).
Pamela Ertel, RN, BSN, CNOR, RNFA, CASC, FABC, administrative director of the Reading Hospital SurgiCenter at Spring Ridge in Wyomissing, Pa., has attacked the distracted doctoring problem head on.
— David Bernard
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