From: The 5th anniversary of the "Universal Protocol": pitfalls and pearls revisited
Surgical "never-events" |
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1. Surgery performed on the wrong body part. |
2. Surgery performed on the wrong patient. |
3. Wrong surgical procedure performed on a patient. |
4. Unintended retention of a foreign object in a patient after surgery or other procedure. |
5. Intraoperative or immediate postoperative death in an ASA class I patient. |