ASC operating rooms can be dangerous breeding grounds for fire outbreaks, especially during head and neck surgeries when three components — an ignition source such as a cautery, fuel such as ...
Surgical fires are the seventh most hazardous healthcare technology for 2012, according to an ECRI Institute report. The report, “2012 Top 10 Health Technology Hazards,” discusses the dangers of ...
The Joint Commission recently updated its 20-year-old guidance on preventing surgical fires and burns, the organization said Oct. 18. There is no national reporting system that tracks the rate and ...
On Thanksgiving Day 2022, Kathy Stark watched as her husband of 35 years, Bobby Ray Stark, caught fire at a Nashville hospital. According to Clint Kelly, Kathy Stark's attorney, the hospital staff was ...
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