This important topic is evolving daily in operating rooms (ORs) around the world. Patients are living longer because of complex operations performed on a routine basis. Older and sicker patients are being treated. The margin for error to achieve excellent…
Background The concept of a healthy patient safety culture in the perioperative setting embraces a number of critical concepts for healthcare practitioners including: recognition of organizational vulnerability in the provision and sustainability of safe patient care; acknowledgment that reporting of…
Introduction Background The gap between the current and desired states of healthcare has been increasingly well established. There are a number of sobering statistics offered to illustrate that healthcare delivery falls short of proposed standards. Providing adequate (much less exceptional)…
It is no doubt that perioperative harm is frequent. Surgery has been identified as the source of many unavoidable medical errors and deaths. However, recent studies have proved that many of these adverse events are preventable. , The success of…
What is human error? Human error is inescapable simply because we are human. Human error is an act that is not intended, may happen at random, and may not be fully preventable. Some words that may be used to describe…