implanttimeout.com

With more than 20 years of clinical experience, our team at implant timeout™ has developed a way for surgical teams to insure all participants in the surgical suite understand and acknowledge the 3 S’s of any planned procedure. This trademarked process consists of three simple questions the surgical team (surgeon, tech and circulator) verbalizes prior to opening sterile implants for an orthopedic procedure. Once implemented, this 10-second process can eliminate implant waste, or worse yet, a “sentinel event. “When first introduced, the procedural timeout was considered rudimentary, or even silly, by many members of the clinical staff. Now it is the gold standard of avoiding “Wrong Site Surgery” (WSS). Today, 72% of WSS incidence are directly attributable to a defective “time out” procedure (AORN, May 15, 2013). The implant timeout poster motivates surgical suite attendees to participate in the process which will help avoid mistakenly opened sterile implant, not to mention surgical errors. Orthopedic teams in some of the country’s busiest institutions have already implemented the ITO. Within two months, they’re documenting a successful ITO 100% of the time.

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