A Review of Recent Advances in Perioperative Patient Safety

被引:17
作者
Fowler, Alexander J. [1 ]
机构
[1] QMUL, Barts & London Sch Med & Dent, London, England
来源
ANNALS OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY | 2013年 / 2卷 / 01期
关键词
Patient Safety; World Health Organization Checklist; Communication; Human Factors;
D O I
10.1016/S2049-0801(13)70020-7
中图分类号
R5 [内科学];
学科分类号
1002 ; 100201 ;
摘要
Major complications in surgery affect up to 16% of surgical procedures. Over the past 50 years, many patient safety initiatives have attempted to reduce such complications. Since the formation of the National Patient Safety Agency in 2001, there have been major advances in patient safety. Most recently, the production and implementation of the Surgical Safety Checklist by the World Health Organisation (WHO), a checklist ensuring that certain 'never events' (wrong-site surgery, wrong operation etc.) do not occur, irrespective of healthcare allowance. In this review, a summary of recent advances in patient safety are considered - including improvements in communication, understanding of human factors that cause mistakes, and strategies developed to minimise these. Additionally, the synthesis of best medical practice and harm minimisation is examined, with particular emphasis on communication and appreciation of human factors in the operating theatre. This is based on the resource management systems developed in other high risk industries (e.g. nuclear), and has also been adopted for other high risk medical areas. The WHO global movement to reduce surgical mortality has been highly successful, especially in the healthcare systems of developing nations where mortality reductions of up to 50% have been observed, and reductions in patient complications of 4%. Incident reporting has long been a key component of patient safety and continues to be so; allowing reflection and improved guideline formation. All patients are placed at risk in the surgical environment. It is crucial that this risk is minimised, whilst optimising the patient's outcome. In this review, recent advances in perioperative patient safety are examined and placed in context. (C) Surgical Associates Ltd
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