A New York City hospital was cited for its apparent failure to implement an operating room fire prevention plan, according to an article in the Outpatient Surgery website.
A New York State Department of Health investigation said NYU Langone Medical Center showed "no evidence of an immediate plan to prevent the recurrence of fire injury to patients undergoing surgery."
Miscommunications between a surgeon and an anesthesiologist was blamed for a December 2014 flash fire that burned a patient.
The state visited NYU Langone shortly after the fire and declared an "immediate jeopardy situation" due to what it saw as a lapse in compliance with current standards of safety practices.
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