You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Images in medicine
Inadvertent transfer of surgical skin marking could potentiate wrong site surgery
  1. Jia Yu Ng,
  2. Richard Stirling
  1. Ophthalmology Department, Darlington Memorial Hospital, Darlington, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Jia Yu Ng, Ophthalmology Department, Darlington Memorial Hospital, Darmellington Road, Darlington, County Durham DL3 6HX, UK; jiang{at}doctors.org.uk

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/postgradmedj-2016-134137

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Wrong site surgery (WSS) is a preventable but serious error. It is well accepted that preoperative marking is a fundamental part of the preoperative verification process to prevent devastating incident of WSS.1 For this purpose, WHO guidelines for safe surgery recommend that the site of surgery should be marked with permanent felt-tip marker prior to …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Contributors JYN and RS have both contributed in writing and technical editing of the manuscript.

    • The authors have read the manuscript and have approved this submission.

    • Competing interests None.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    Copyright information:

    Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://www.bmj.com/company/products-services/rights-and-licensing/