title: 'Swab racks are an old fashioned idea'.
abstract: Mary Mumford, theatre sister at the Princes of Wales Hospital, Bridgend, was asked to speak in a short debate at an NATN branch meeting, supporting the motion that 'swab racks are an old fashioned idea'. Although she did not like swab racks she had not attempted thus far to do anything about them. In the event, she actually lost the debate--not in principle but because she could offer no effective alternative method of checking swabs. Having been given the incentive, a trial is now being conducted in her hospital similar to that described by Paul Wicker. This is the case presented by Mary Mumford supporting the following motion ... 'that swab racks are an old fashioned idea, which cause more potential problems due to exposure of blood than is proven to be safe in today's theatre environment'.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mumford
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods*; D009871:Operating Room Nursing / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D015503:Surgical Sponges