A Dashboard for the PACU: Given a Window into the OR, Recovery Nurses Transform Work Methods

Communication in the perioperative environment is critical for patient safety and effective teamwork. Team members need to know the name of the patient, scheduled procedure, patient precautions and allergies, along with names of team members working together for a given case. Over the past several years, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) developed an intra-operative dashboard in collaboration with LiveData (Cambridge, Massachusetts) to aid in the Timeout/Universal Protocol process as well as provide these critical communication elements (Figure 1).

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New Tools for MRI Safety Ferromagnetically Naked

  July / August 2008 New Tools for MRI Safety Ferromagnetically Naked By Tobias Gilk     Photo courtesy of Metrasens Ltd. The recent Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alert #38 on MRI accidents, last year’s American College of Radiology “ACR Guidance Document for Safe MR Practices: 2007” (Kanal et al., 2007), and a string of MRI … Continued

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