Thursday, 06 August 2009

Linkage

Bring in the engineers, redux


His brother’s (successful) surgery prompted Steven Den Beste to medidate on an engineering solution to a fatal operating-room error, and the ever-present danger of Murphy’s law.

About two years ago, I wrote about fatal post-op cross-connection mistakes, and how at the time the Food & Drug Administration was pushing for more “education” as a solution, instead of working to make them mechanically impossible.

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1 For Pete's sake, why don't they just color-code things like they do with computer peripherals? Green plug goes in the green jack, purple plug goes the in the purple jack, and everybody's happy. Sheesh.

Posted by: Joanna at 08/06/09 17:18:38 (gJQTg)

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