A nurse goes to the refrigerator to get blood for an evening case, only to find it has already been taken back to the blood bank. A set is missing the same instrument for the second time this week. There have been problems with timely delivery of blood units for emergency coronary artery bypass cases.
The OR has a planned rhythm that relies on training,…
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