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TOP TRIPPING HAZARD Conceal cords with disposable cord covers or with bath blankets.
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How Do You Prevent
Slips & Trips in the OR?
From fluid to cords to kick buckets, the operating room floor can be a dangerous place.
Dan O'Connor | Editor-in-Chief
Did you hear the one about the anesthesiologist who tripped over the electrical cord in the OR? He wasn't going where he was looking. "That was me," says Gary Lawson, MD, of Moonlight Anesthesia in Fort Myers, Fla. "I tripped over the fluoroscopy machine cable cord because I was looking in the opposite direction." Then there was the surgical tech who literally put his foot in it. Andrew Forgach, CST, of the Center For Special Surgery in Wall, N.J., stuck his foot into a carelessly placed kick bucket and went flying head over heels, crashing down hard on his backside. "I was backing up out of the way of
