Tag: Disaster Planning

Surgery by flashlight as Joplin team operates through tornado

It started out as a typical Sunday morning on call—a 7:30 am C section, home for a nap, then a call-back at 3 pm for orthopedic cases. But that Sunday, May 22, 2011, turned out to be anything but typical for Staci Perry, a surgical technologist at St John's Regional…

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By: Judith M. Mathias, RN, MA
July 1, 2011
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Is your OR prepared for a natural disaster?

Do your hospital disaster drills include natural disasters? What would you do if you lost electricity, steam, and water because of a flood, storm, or other disaster? Do you know about your hospital's physical plant and how it supports perioperative services? St Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, faced these…

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By: Judith M. Mathias, RN, MA
March 1, 2009
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