Identify at least three types of reporting that should accompany this kind of adverse event
You are allocated to the role of circulating nurse to care for a 75-year-old woman undergoing a left hip hemi-arthroplasty. During the Surgical Safety Checklist it becomes apparent that incorrect prostheses have been ordered and sterilised, and no suitable alternative prostheses are available. Your patient is already anaesthetised and now needs to be woken up as the surgery cannot go ahead as planned.
What will be an ideal response?
Answer:
Incident reporting via a hospital-based system, notification to theatre coordinators/managers, documentation in the medical record, notification to the patient's family and reporting to company/supplier of prostheses of an incorrect order. This would allow for follow-up and escalation as appropriate to ensure similar situations do not re-cur.
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