Good Monday Morning, We had a serious incident Friday with O.R. My aide went
down to get the specimens from O.R. about 9am. (which were left overs from the
night before). She did not stamp in the specimens before she left. When I had
time to stamp them in and record them in the log book I discovered that the
colon was not there. Two other specimens from that patient where in the bag
but no colon. So I went down to O.R. to see where it was. Of course no one
knows what happened to the colon. The doctors are furious by all means. Now
the O.R. thinks the path lab screwed up. So my questions is how do others log
in the specimens as they come into the lab. We have 2 couriers that brings
specimens when we are not in the lab from other hospitals. How do you make
sure that whom ever brings the specimens actually brings the ones they say they
do? Do you have a log book that every specimen that is brought into the lab is
written down by the person who brings it in? Right now we have a log book but
it is written in as we are accessing the specimens. So the specimens may have
been there overnight. We are a very small lab and we do almost everything by
hand including writing in the log book. Someday we want to be able to scan by
bar codes but right now we can not do that. Thanks for any help you can give
me.
Kathy Gorham, H.T.
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