The tools are a new protocol with checklist to follow prior to and the day of surgery as well as a CME course.
"Using a consistent preoperative and operative protocol can help reduce preventable surgical errors," said H. Dunbar Hoskins Jr., MD, executive vice president of the AAO in the release. "While wrong site and wrong IOL errors are extremely uncommon, we wanted to take good practices and make them even better."
Laminated copies of the checklist have been mailed to the AAO’s membership in the United States. Additional copies can be downloaded at the AAO Web site.
The CME course is available online and will cover performance measures to reduce wrong site/wrong IOL surgery.
Learn more about new AAO wrong site surgery tools.
