One Third of Eye Surgeons Report Having Made Operating Room Errors.The Universal Protocol, designed to prevent wrong site, wrong procedure, and wrong patient surgical errors, can be insufficiently effective for strabismus surgery.That's the conclusion of a study presented here at the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus 38th Annual Meeting. A checklist specifically tailored to strabismologists, which accounts for the specific errors made by eye surgeons, might improve surgical accuracy and prevent many common strabismus surgical errors. To see more details visit, www.medscape.com
