Editorial comment

Despite the implementation of the Universal Protocol in 2004 for hospitals accredited by the Joint Commission, wrong-site surgeries continue to occur with an estimate of about one event per 100,000 surgical procedures.1 The protocol involves preoperative verification of the patient, marking the surgery site, and having a time out amongst the operating room personnel to verify the patient and the operation to be performed. In this case, the scrotal ultrasound should have been available and intraoperative verification could have been done since the right testicular mass was palpable.
Source: Urology - Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Source Type: research