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Put patient safety at the center of your surgical protocol-with this essential case-based guide
Despite many advances in the practice of surgery, surgical complications continue to cause significant patient morbidity and mortality. Now more than ever, it is the responsibility of every surgeon to take the lead in understanding and mitigating complications and adverse events.
Surgical Patient Safety: A Case-based Approach is your blueprint for putting this goal within reach.
This timely resource gives you all the insights needed to effectively manage patient safety, covering everything from sharpening communication skills to establishing shared decision-making with patients and their families. Supplementing this important content are numerous case-based examples and exercises, supported by color illustrations, tables, figures, radiographs, and algorithms. Taken as a whole, this new textbook represents a one-stop, hands-on patient safety primer that no other sourcebook can match.
Surgical Patient Safety represents a vital call to action-one designed to inspire a physician-driven initiative fostering a global culture of patient safety.
Features
. The latest practical patient safety tools for surgeons in training, including surgical safety checklists, intraoperative "rescue" strategies, and the global implementation of new regulatory compliance guidelines
. Case-based scenarios examining technical challenges and bail-out options in the operating room
. Bulleted "pearls and pitfalls" that take you through the decision-making process for diagnostic work up and revision of specific complications
. Insights from renowned experts that explain how to handle malpractice lawsuits; navigate the modern dangers of electronic health records; apply the pragmatic "IKEA approach" for patient advocacy; and much more
. A must-read for all practicing surgeons, independent of the surgical subspecialty
List of contents
I. General AspectsChapter 1: DefinitionsChapter 2: Non-Technical Aspects of Safe Surgical PerformanceChapter 3: Cognitive Errors Chapter 4: Professionalism in SurgeryChapter 5: The Surgical M&M Conference Chapter 6: Evidence-based Medicine and Patient SafetyChapter 7: Electronic Medical Records and Patient Safety II. Practical AspectsChapter 8: Tips and Tricks of Effective CommunicationChapter 9: Tips and Tricks for Informed Consent and Shared Decision-MakingChapter 10: Surgical Safety Checklists - Pitfalls and PearlsChapter 11: Strategies for Preventing Surgical ComplicationsChapter 12: Intraoperative 'Rescue' StrategiesChapter 13: How to Disclose Complications Chapter 14: How to Become a Safe SurgeonChapter 15: How to Become an Empathetic SurgeonChapter 16: How to Become a Transparent Surgeon III. Technical ErrorsChapter 17: Technical Errors in General Surgery Chapter 18: Technical Errors in Abdominal Surgery Chapter 19: Technical Errors in Thoracic Surgery Chapter 20: Technical Errors in Vascular Surgery Chapter 21: Technical Errors in Urological Surgery Chapter 22: Technical Errors in Gynecological Surgery Chapter 23: Technical Errors in Transplantation Surgery Chapter 24: Technical Errors in Neurosurgery Chapter 25: Technical Errors in Orthopedic Surgery Chapter 26: Technical Errors in Spine SurgeryChapter 27: Technical Errors in Emergency Surgery IV. Case Examples of non-technical complicationsChapter 29: Case Example #1: Breakdown in CommunicationChapter 30: Case Example #2: Error in JudgmentChapter 31: Case Example #3: The Preventable In-Hospital Death V. Conclusion and Future PerspectivesChapter 32: The Surgeon-Driven Initiative for Surgical Patient Safety
About the author
Philip F. Stahel, MD, FACS (Denver, CO) is Professor of Orthopedics and Neurosurgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
