New Orleans—Despite a zero-tolerance policy at many institutions and organizations, wrong-sided blocks still occur, although many go unreported. Yet as a near miss at Duke University Medical Center helps illustrate, implementation of an anesthesiologist-led block protocol helps prevent such accidents from taking place.
“We’ve always had an institutional guideline for surgeons to mark the limb if it’s a unilateral procedure,” began Jeff C. Gadsden, MD, associate