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There's An App For That - July 2018 - Subscribe to Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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J u l y 2 0 1 8 • O U T PA T I E N TS U R G E R Y. N E T • 5 1 The Count Is Off — Now What? We created a step-by-step poster to resolve incorrect counts and hung it on every OR wall. Emily McKisson, MS, BSN, RN, CNOR | Columbus, Ohio • HUNG WITH PRIDE Emily McKisson, MS, BSN, RN, CNOR, and Chris Marchese, RN, stand before the poster-size algorithm that outlines everyone's tasks in the event of an incorrect count. The poster hangs in all 80 ORs at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. Download a free PDF at out- patientsurgery.net/forms. In Ms. McKisson's right hand is a cottonoid similar to the one left in a patient during a 2016 neurosurgery. H ow do you resol ve an incorrect count at your facility? Whether it's as simple as a dropped hemostat that you didn't hear hit the floor or as seri- ous as a missing sponge that didn't show up on a foreign body X-ray, you would hope that your surgeons and staff would follow your incorrect count policy to the letter, taking exactly the right steps in exactly the right order whenever the count is incorrect, unresolved or unrec- onciled. Of course, we know that's not always the case. Not all of the

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