By Michael Vlessides
Originally published by our sister publication, Anesthesiology News
San Diego—A new initiative by a community health system is addressing a source of OR contamination that many anesthesiologists may underappreciate or fail to recognize: cell phones.
As a result of the study, clinicians found that adherence to various elements of a phone use protocol produced a sustained reduction in contamination of the ORs.
“As anesthesiologists, we spend a lot of time talking