Safer surgery : analysing behaviour in the operating theatre

Safer surgery : analysing behaviour in the operating theatre / [edited by] Rhona Flin & Lucy Mitchell.

"Operating theatres are very private workplaces. There have been few research investigations into how highly trained doctors and nurses work together to achieve safe and efficient anaesthesia and surgery. While there have been major advances in surgical and anaesthetic procedures, there are sti...

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Other Authors: Flin, Rhona H., Mitchell, Lucy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009.
Subjects:
Surgical errors > Prevention.
Surgery.
Operating rooms.
Accidents > Prevention.
Interprofessional relations.
surgery (health care function)
operating rooms.
MEDICAL > Surgery > General.
Interprofessional relations
Accidents > Prevention
Operating rooms
Surgery
Surgical errors > Prevention
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Charles Vincent
  • Preface / George Youngson
  • Introduction / Rhona Flin and Lucy Mitchell
  • Part I. Tools for Measuring Behaviour in the Operating Theatre:
  • Development and evaluation of the NOTSS behaviour rating system for intraoperative surgery: 2003
  • 2008 / Steven Yule, Rhona Flin, Nikki Maran, David Rowley, George Youngson, John Duncan and Simon Paterson-Brown
  • Competence evaluation in orthopaedics
  • a ''bottom up'' approach / David Pitts and David Rowley
  • Implementing the assessment of surgical skills and non-technical behaviours in the operating room / Joy Marriott, Helen Purdie, Jim Crossley and Jonathan Beard
  • Scrub practitioners' list of intra-operative non-technicalskills
  • SPLINTS / Lucy Mitchell and Rhona Flin
  • Observing and assessing surgical teams: the Observational Teamwork Assessment for Surgery:OTAS / Shabnam Undre, Nick Sevdalis and Charles Vincent
  • Rating operating theatre teams
  • surgical NOTECHS / Ami Mishra, Ken Catchpole, Guy Hirst, Trevor Dale and Peter McCulloch
  • RATE: a customizable, portable hardware /software system for analyzing and teaching human performance in the operating room / Stephanie Guerlain and J. Forrest Calland
  • A-TEAM: targets for training, feedback and assessment of all OR members' teamwork / Carl-Johan Wallin, Leif Hedman, Lisbet Meurling and Li Fellander-Tsai
  • Introducing TOPplus in the operating theatre (Connie Dekker-van Doorn, Linda Wauben, Benno Bonke, Geert Kazemier, Jan Klein, Bianca Balvert, Bart Vrouenraets, Robbert Huijsman and Johan Lange) Part II Observational Studies of Anaesthetists:
  • Integrating non-technical skills into anaesthetists' workplace-based assessment tools / Ronnie Glavin and Rona Patey
  • Using ANTS for workplace assessment, Jodi Graham, Emma Giles and Graham Hocking)
  • Measuring coordination behaviour in anaesthesia teams during induction of general anaesthetics, Michaela Kolbe, Barbara Kunzle, Eniko Zala-Mezo, Johannes Wacker and Gudela Grote)
  • Identifying characteristics of effective teamwork in complex medical work environments: adaptive crew coordination in anaesthesia / Tanja Manser, Steven K. Howard and David M. Gaba
  • Teams, talk and transitions in anaesthetic practice, Andrew Smith, Catherine Pope, Dawn Goodwin and Maggie Mort. Part III Observation of Theatre Teams: An empiric study of surgical team behaviours, patient outcomes, and a programme based on its results / Eric Thomas, Karen Mazzocco, Suzanne Graham, Diana Petitti, Kenneth Fong, Doug Bonacum, John Brookey, Robert Lasky and Bryan Sexton
  • Counting silence: complexities in the evaluation of team communication / Lorelei Lingard, Sarah Whyte, Glenn Regehr and Fauzia Gardezi
  • Observing team problem solving and communication in critical incidents / Gesine Hofinger and Cornelius Buerschaper
  • Observing failures in successful orthopaedic surgery / Ken Catchpole
  • Remembering to do things later and resuming interrupted tasks: prospective memory and patient safety / Peter Dieckmann, Marlene Dyrl Madsen, Silke Reddersen, Marcus Rall and Theo Wehner
  • Surgical decision-making: a multimodal approach / Nick Sevdalis, Rosamond Jacklin and Charles Vincent
  • Simulator-based evaluation of clinical guidelines in acute medicine / Christoph Eich, Michael Muller, Andrea Nickut and Arnd Timmermann
  • Measuring the impact of time pressure on team task performance / Colin F. Mackenzie, Shelley A. Jeffcott and Yan Xiao
  • Distractions and interruptions in the operating room / Nick Sevdalis, Sonal Arora, Shabnam Undre and Charles Vincent
  • Part IV. Discussions:
  • Putting behavioural markers to work: developing and evaluating safety training in healthcare settings / David Musson
  • Commentary and clinical perspective / Paul Uhlig
  • Behaviour in the operating theatre: a clinical perspective(Nikki Maran and Simon Paterson-Brown.

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