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