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Best Practices for Surgical Specimen Handling

The document outlines essential procedures for handling surgical specimens, including proper documentation of serial numbers and risk management reporting. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining sterility and moisture for specimens, as well as verifying patient identity with unique identifiers. Additionally, it details the responsibilities of the surgical team members in preparing specimens for laboratory analysis.

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Best Practices for Surgical Specimen Handling

The document outlines essential procedures for handling surgical specimens, including proper documentation of serial numbers and risk management reporting. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining sterility and moisture for specimens, as well as verifying patient identity with unique identifiers. Additionally, it details the responsibilities of the surgical team members in preparing specimens for laboratory analysis.

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Specimens (final prep)

-Documentation of the serial number in the medical record and on the pathology requisition
-Completing a risk management report - ANS-Proper handling of an explant removed because
of an apparent defect or failure includes:

-Keep it in a sterile basin until it can be passed to the circulating nurse


-Keep it moist with saline - ANS-After a surgical specimen is procured by the surgeon, the scrub
person should:

-Patient's medical record


-Spelling of the patient's name - ANS-To ensure proper handling of surgical specimens, which
unique identifiers are most important for the perioperative nurse to use to verify the patient's
identity before the patient enters the OR?

Circulating Nurse - ANS-Which member of the surgical team is responsible for preparing the
surgical specimen to be sent to the laboratory?

Muscle, nerve, testicular, bone marrow - ANS-Biopsies that require specialized methods of
preparation and preservation to preserve the cells include:

Placing it in a sterile plastic container - ANS-Proper handling of a bullet removed from a patient
as forensic evidence includes:

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