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Thumbs Up on Safety Scalpels - Outpatient Surgery Magazine - May 2019

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they hoped safety scalpel manufacturers would make, nearly all wished for a safety mechanism that is easier to activate and deacti- vate. "Some are easier to use than others," says one. "When it takes time and it takes 2 hands [to activate], there is a greater risk of an injury." Says another: "A better mechanism than a sheath that is sloppy. It's not machined to be a very solid or precise piece of gear." One wished for left- and right-handed sheath cover activation. Persistence pays If your surgeons have shunned safety scalpels from their ORs, press on with pleasant persistence. First, a trial. Then, maybe a conversion. "We just ask the surgeons to try them, and tell them we are required to test safety blades on a yearly basis with documentation, and they have no problem," says Jane Bell, RN, BSN, nurse manager of Cityview Surgery Center in Fort Worth, Texas. "It took a while for them to get used to the devices, but now they like them." OSM M A Y 2 0 1 9 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y. N E T • 4 3

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