Prevention and Management of Operating Room Fire: An Interprofessional Operating Room Team Simulation Case.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Operating room (OR) fire can be a devastating and costly event to patients and health care providers. Prevention and effective management of such fires may present difficulties even for experienced OR staff.

Methods

This simulation involved a 52-year-old man presenting for excisional biopsy of a cervical lymph node to be performed under sedation. Participants were expected to identify and manage both contained and uncontained fires resulting from ignition by electrosurgical cautery. We conducted weekly multidisciplinary simulations in the mock OR at Massachusetts General Hospital. Participants included surgery and anesthesiology residents, certified registered nurse anesthetists, registered nurses, and surgical technicians. Participants were unaware of the scena

SUBMITTER: Mai CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7012309 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature