This document discusses goals and guidelines for identifying patients and ensuring effective communication and safe surgery. It emphasizes writing down patient information, reading it back, and confirming for accurate identification. It also lists various surgical site infections, central line-associated bloodstream infections, ventilator-associated pneumonia, and catheter-associated urinary tract infections that protocols aim to prevent.
This document discusses goals and guidelines for identifying patients and ensuring effective communication and safe surgery. It emphasizes writing down patient information, reading it back, and confirming for accurate identification. It also lists various surgical site infections, central line-associated bloodstream infections, ventilator-associated pneumonia, and catheter-associated urinary tract infections that protocols aim to prevent.
This document discusses goals and guidelines for identifying patients and ensuring effective communication and safe surgery. It emphasizes writing down patient information, reading it back, and confirming for accurate identification. It also lists various surgical site infections, central line-associated bloodstream infections, ventilator-associated pneumonia, and catheter-associated urinary tract infections that protocols aim to prevent.
Special Circumstances When do you identify a patient? GOAL 2: Improve Effective Communication WRITE DOWN-READ BACK-CONFIRM GOAL 2: ENSURE SAFE SURGERY S.S.I C.L.A.B.S.I V.A.P C.A.U.T.I