• Wrong site/procedure/patient surgery
• Retained surgical items
• Medication errors
• Failures in instrument reprocessing
• Pressure injuries
• Specimen management errors
• Surgical fires
• Perioperative hypothermia
• Burns from energy devices
• Difficult intubation/airways emergencies
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