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Current Target Area: Making Surgery Safer

Reducing Risk in Surgery
Surgery is fraught with risk, a risk that is borne out in the malpractice experience. Consider the very nature of surgery, grounded in science but practiced as an art. It requires dexterity, physical stamina, knowledge, and judgment. In the operating room, relatively “normal” patients are given medications that stop them from breathing and make them feel no pain while a surgeon takes a knife and opens the body, reaching...

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The Challenges and Opportunities for Reducing Risk in Surgery by William Berry, MD, MPH

Malpractice Claims Involving Surgeons by Kathy Dwyer

Case Abstract: Delayed Diagnosis of Post-operative Complication by Deborah LaValley, BSN, RN, CPHQ

[audio] Surgeons Fixing Communication Errors

Simulation-based Team Training: The Physician Participant’s Perspective by Steven D. Schwaitzberg, MD, FACS

Case Abstract: Chaos in the OR

[audio] Surgery Data Belie Slip of Knife Myth

When We Err by Jo Shapiro, MD

Case Abstract: Death By Complication

[audio] Surgeons and Error Disclosure

Harvard Teaching Hospitals Talk to Improve Communication Among Surgeons by Tom Augello

Case Abstract: Attending Needed at Bedside for Emergency Abdominal DX

[audio] Patient Status Changes “Trigger” Call to MD

Tips for Safer Surgical Practice from CRICO/RMF

[audio] Case Abstract: Assumptions, Lack of Structure in Handoffs

[audio] Are Intact Surgical Teams Possible for Safety?

A New Paradigm for Surgical Training by Daniel B. Jones, MD; Kinga A. Powers, MD; Scott T. Rehrig, MD

Case Abstract: Inadequate Supervision In The O.R.

[audio] Case Abstract: Test Ordered but Results Not Pursued

Legal Issue: Informed Consent for Surgery Patients by Richard Riley, Esq.

[audio] Consent for Elective Procedures

[audio] Openness and Caution in Disclosing Adverse Events

Video

A Case for Patient Safety: Surgical Chief’s Mistake Could Happen to Anybody

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Exercise: Lessening the Risk to a Surgical Patient of Incurring a Preventable ErrorScore points and prevent harm to a surgical patient with successful choices through a pre-op and post-op interactive decision tree.

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