Alcohol based surgical prep solution and the risk of fire in the operating room: a case report

A few cases of fire in the operating room are reported in the literature. The factors that may initiate these fires are many and include alcohol based surgical prep solutions, electrosurgical equipment, flammable drapes etc. We are reporting a case of fire in the operating room while operating on a...

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Autores principales: Batra, Sumit, Gupta, Rajiv
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2377238/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18439304
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1754-9493-2-10
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description A few cases of fire in the operating room are reported in the literature. The factors that may initiate these fires are many and include alcohol based surgical prep solutions, electrosurgical equipment, flammable drapes etc. We are reporting a case of fire in the operating room while operating on a patient with burst fracture C6 vertebra with quadriplegia. The cause of the fire was due to incomplete drying of the covering drapes with an alcohol based surgical prep solution. This paper discusses potential preventive measures to minimize the incidence of fire in the operating room.
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spelling pubmed-23772382008-05-13 Alcohol based surgical prep solution and the risk of fire in the operating room: a case report Batra, Sumit Gupta, Rajiv Patient Saf Surg Case Report A few cases of fire in the operating room are reported in the literature. The factors that may initiate these fires are many and include alcohol based surgical prep solutions, electrosurgical equipment, flammable drapes etc. We are reporting a case of fire in the operating room while operating on a patient with burst fracture C6 vertebra with quadriplegia. The cause of the fire was due to incomplete drying of the covering drapes with an alcohol based surgical prep solution. This paper discusses potential preventive measures to minimize the incidence of fire in the operating room. BioMed Central 2008-04-26 /pmc/articles/PMC2377238/ /pubmed/18439304 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1754-9493-2-10 Text en Copyright © 2008 Batra and Gupta; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Alcohol based surgical prep solution and the risk of fire in the operating room: a case report
title Alcohol based surgical prep solution and the risk of fire in the operating room: a case report
title_full Alcohol based surgical prep solution and the risk of fire in the operating room: a case report
title_fullStr Alcohol based surgical prep solution and the risk of fire in the operating room: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Alcohol based surgical prep solution and the risk of fire in the operating room: a case report
title_short Alcohol based surgical prep solution and the risk of fire in the operating room: a case report
title_sort alcohol based surgical prep solution and the risk of fire in the operating room: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2377238/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18439304
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1754-9493-2-10
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