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The Death of Joan Rivers: What Went Wrong? - October 2014 - Subscribe to Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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1 8 O U T P AT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E | O C T O B E R 2 0 1 4 IDEAS That Work Practical pearls from your colleagues Brenda Vahle, RN, CAPA A fter you clip the hair from the surgical site, use a lint roller or an adhesive glove — depending on how hairy the patient is — to pick up all the little clippings that can either fall onto the patient or get into the bed linen. Your surgeons will really appreciate that there's no loose hair falling around the OR when you transfer patients from gurneys to OR tables. Brenda Vahle, RN, CAPA BSM Surgery Center Corvallis, Ore. bvahle@bsmac.com CLEARING THE HAIR Pick Up Loose Hair Clippings ON A ROLL Meredith Plummer, RN, uses a lint roller to remove hair clippings.

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