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Enhancing Patient Safety with Viscoelastic Gel Overlays in Surgical Positioning
Surgical nurses play a critical role in protecting patients from positioning-related pressure injuries during surgical procedures. One of the most effective tools to support this mission is the viscoelastic gel overlay, a material designed to reduce pressure, enhance...
Take the Time for a “Time Out”
The “Time Out” The “time out” is one part of the Universal Protocol developed by the Joint Commission to prevent wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-person surgery. Each are considered never events by the National Quality Forum and sentinel events by the Joint...
Pressure Injuries in Ambulatory Surgical Centers
An ambulatory surgical center (ASC) is a healthcare facility that focuses on providing same-day surgical care that includes diagnostic and preventative surgery. When looking at the ASC, it has transformed the outpatient surgical experience for millions of Americans by...
Gel Overlays: A Head-to-Toe Tool in the Prevention of Perioperative Pressure Injuries
Amos Schonrock, MAN, RN, ST, PHN, CSSM, CNAMB, CNOR, NE-BCPerioperative Practice and Safety SpecialistAs perioperative professionals, the operating room team has a constant dedication and calling to the creation and maintenance of an environment that keeps our patient...
Supine Positioning: Enhanced Approaches to a Common Surgical Routine
Amos Schonrock, MAN, RN, ST, PHN, CSSM, CNAMB, CNOR, NE-BCPerioperative Practice and Safety SpecialistOne of the highly common surgical positions is supine. This approach involves the surgical team’s watchful eyes to oversee a patient that will lie on their back with...
Pressure Injuries: Protect your Patients in Extreme Surgical Positions
Some surgical procedures require extreme positioning to ensure that the targeted surgical area is accessible to the surgeon and the surgical team. Extreme positioning requires extreme positioning devices, manufactured to meet the need for surgical access....
Safe Lateral Position for Improved Team and Patient Outcomes
The lateral surgical position is one of the most labor-intensive surgical positions that depends on brute force and team strength. The lateral position is not only physically taxing on the staff, but also can be as hard on the patient; therefore, it is important to...
Pressure Injuries in the Neonatal Population
Typically, when we think of skin injury prevention in the acute care setting, we think of that immobile, post trauma, geriatric or surgical patient. There is a plethora of literature and research around the subject yet each year, more than 2.5 million people in the...
Protect the Heels with Evidence Based Interventions
The supine position is the most common surgical position with the patient lying on their back with the head, neck and spine in a neutral position. This position is not without pressure injury risk as there is increased pressure and shear forces to the scapula,...
Pressure Injuries: A Never Event, Part 3
Protecting Your Patient from a Perioperative Skin Injury through Post Anesthesia Care Unit to the Inpatient Floor The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel, European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel and Pan Pacific Pressure Injury Alliance reports that hospital-acquired...
