Blood Bank Testing Day of Surgery Fatalities

Ah, got it....

Brenda

Thanks for your reply Brenda. I guess I wasn't clear in my comment. Yes, absolutely the surgeon is responsible for his patient. Yes, absolutely the regulatory agencies know how things should work and will correctly identify where the problems lie. I know that we are doing the best we can do with the process in place.

The people I was referring to that will make it "Blood Banks fault" are OR managers and surgeons. They tend to look at a problem and decide what the solution is only from one viewpoint, their own. The processes are then set up accordingly and everyone else has to figure out how to work within those restrictions. Involving everyone who has a part in the entire process seems like such a logical thing to do, but it never seems to work that way. I guess it's human nature to be unable to see beyond the ends of our own noses.