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Volume 91, Issue 4
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New Recommendations for Prevention of Surgical Fires
References
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- . Pioneering applied scientific research in healthcare. https://www.ecri.org/About/Pages/default.aspxAccessed December 15, 2009
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- . A clinician's guide to surgical fires: how they occur, how to prevent them, how to put them out. [guidance article] Health Devices. 2003;32(1):5–24
- . Surgical fire safety. [guidance article] Health Devices. 2006;35(2):45–66
- Practice advisory for the prevention and management of operating room fires: a report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Operating Room Fires. Anesthesiology. 2008;108(5):786–801
- Preventing surgical fires: important new recommendations released. [news release] Plymouth Meeting, PA: ECRI Institute; October 22, 2009;https://www.ecri.org/Press/Pages/Preventing_Surgical_Fires.aspxAccessed December 30, 2009
- Recommended practices for electrosurgery. In: Perioperative Standards and Recommended Practices. Denver, CO: AORN, Inc; 2010;p. 105–126
- AORN guidance statement: Fire prevention in the operating room. In: Perioperative Standards and Recommended Practices. Denver, CO: AORN, Inc; 2010;p. 195–203
- . Fire Safety Tool Kit. http://www.aorn.org/applications/Login/login.aspx?destinationurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eaorn%2Eorg%2FPracticeResources%2FToolKits%2FFireSafetyToolKit%2FAccessed December 23, 2009
The AORN Journal is seeking contributors for the Patient Safety First column. Interested authors can contact Donna S. Watson, column coordinator, by sending topic ideas to journalcolumns@aorn.org.
Editor's note: The views expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of Covidien.
PII: S0001-2092(10)00065-7
doi: 10.1016/j.aorn.2009.12.023
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