Circumferential digit marking to prevent inadvertent wrong site surgery or anesthetic administration

Never event data between April 2021 and March 2022 for NHS England found three incisions and four injections to the wrong finger.1 A survey of 1050 hand surgeons showed 16% of them had prepared the wrong site and 21% of them operated on wrong site surgery at least once.2 In some circumstances, the operating surgeons may not be the same surgeon who marked the surgical site. Following one adverse event of local anesthesia administration into the wrong finger, our aim was to prevent similar errors re-occurring.
Source: Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery - Category: Cosmetic Surgery Authors: Tags: Correspondence and Communications Source Type: research