Catalog Number : ngd1739
Title : Prevent and Manage OR Fires
Speaker : Sue Dill

Webplay Recording Date : 4-10-2014
Webplay Price : $ 125 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Overview:
Could your patient catch fire during surgery? Many hospitals that had an OR fire didn’t think it would happen to them. There are an estimated 550 to 650 surgical fires per year in operating rooms in the US. If a fire occurred in your operating room would staff know what to do? It is estimated that fewer than half of the hospitals in the country conduct operating room drills to prevent and control fires. Does your time out include an analysis of the risk of fire? Does your circulating and scrub nurses know their responsibilities to either prevent or manage an OR fire? Do you know what the evidenced based standards say you should be doing now? This is a very important safety issue that all hospitals should be aware.

Target Audience:

• Anesthesiologists, OR Nurses, OR Nurse Director, Surgeons, Risk Managers, Patient Safety Officers, CMO, CNO, COO, Facility Management/LSC, Compliance Officer, Nurse Educator, OR Staff, Compliance Officer, Patient Safety Officer and In-house Legal Counsel

A few of the topics to be discussed:

• Introduction
• Headlines You Don’t Want to See
• New Clinical Guide to Prevention of Surgical Fires
• Fire Safety Video You Should Watch
• Timeouts Need to Include the Risk of Fire
• ECRI and posters
• AORN resources and poster
• Could you catch fire?
• FDA Surgical Fire Prevention
• Patient Safety Authority OR Fire Prevention
• Airway fires • Did You Know?
• Locations of surgical fires
• Fire triangle
• Ignition sources and examples
• Oxidizers and examples
• Fuels and examples
• Only You Can Prevent OR Fires
• ASA Practice Advisory
• Joint Commission sentinel event alert
• CMS Hospital CoP requirements
• Fire Safety Plan
• Fire Drills
• Fire safety OR officer
• Fire Safety Education and Training
• Briefing analysis of risk
• Fire risk assessment tool
• Prevent fires during alcohol based preps
• Preventing fires during electrosurgery
• Reducing likelihood of airway fires
• Prevention of fires during laser use
• Hospital Policy and Procedure
• Medical Device Safety Report
• Electrosurgery Checklist
• Fire Extinguishers
• AORN Competency of staff
• In Summary
• Resources ASHE, AGC, etc.

Webinar Objectives:

• Recall that there are new clinical guidelines to preventing surgical fires
• Describe that CMS has standards in the Hospital Conditions of Participation
• Discuss the importance of allowing alcohol based surgical prep to dry before draping
• Recall that 65% of fires occur when high concentrations of oxygen is used in surgeries performed around the face, neck, and upper chest
  

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