Each year for Congress AORN creates a cartoon that demonstrates breaks in recommended perioperative technique. The cartoons are created by AORN graphic designer Kurt Jones and AORN perioperative nursing specialist Joan Blanchard, RN, MSS, CNOR, CIC.
Can you find the 25 breaks in technique in this year\'s cartoon? (See the answers below).

Answers
Instruments – individual in the next room washing instruments in the scrub sink
Open door facing scrub sink
Cabinet containing equipment that is leaking with clean and sterile supplies
Cleaning – environmental services person removing a white bag of trash out of the room before end of case
Sign on draped instrument table that says “NEXT CASE” – set up for following case
Cleaning – white bag  has blood coming out of the bottom of the bag, should be red bag for hazardous trash
Back instrument table has bloody instruments (retractors) and bloody drape
Back instrument table – basins, med cup have no labels on them
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