Medical Error Bingo - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.

1. Poor Operating Room Set-Up
2. Inadequate PPE
3. Excessive Outside Distractions
4. Wrong Defibrillator Setting
5. Performing Procedure Outside Scope of Practice
6. Failure to Provide Oxygen
7. Performing Procedure Beyond Level of Skill/Training
8. Wrong Dose of Medication
9. Ineffective Defibrillation
10. Unsafe Foreign Objects in Operating Room
11. Failure to Offer Standard of Care
12. Needlessly Removing Caregiver/ Family
13. Incorrect Equipment
14. Unstructured Sign-Out
15. Unlisted Error: __________ __________ __________
16. Wrong Dose of Electricity
17. Procedure Performed Incorrectly
18. Suture Cut Incorrectly
19. Failure to Follow ACLS Protocol
20. Early Cessation of Resuscitation Efforts
21. External Pressure/ Rushing a Procedure
22. Unlisted Error: __________ __________ __________
23. Breaking Sterile Field (Gown/Torso)
24. Failure to Fixate Equipment
25. Closed Loop Communication Absent
26. Specialist Essential to Procedure Absent
27. Failure to Provide Ventilation
28. Talking About the Patient Like They Aren't There
29. Unnecessarily Delaying Procedure
30. Inappropriate Surgical Setting
31. Failure to Share Important Information
32. Something Really Good: __________ __________ __________
33. Overconfident Physician
34. Critical Information Delayed
35. Primary Physician Cannot Be Reached
36. Making Excuses for Medical Errors
37. Breaking Sterile Field (Gloves/ Hands)
38. Poor History Taking
39. Prolonged Interruption of Compressions
40. Illegal Declaration of Death
41. Bad Ergonomics
42. Lack of Physician Follow-Through
43. Scrub in Incorrectly
44. Ineffective CPR