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