Safe Surgery Saves Lives

Francesco Venneri; Lawrence B. Brown; Francesca Cammelli; Elliott R. Haut

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-59403-9_14

Safe Surgery Saves Lives

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In: Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management [Internet]. Cham (CH): Springer; 2021. Chapter 14.

2020 Dec 15.

Authors

Francesco Venneri¹, Lawrence B. Brown², Francesca Cammelli³, Elliott R. Haut⁴

Book Editors

Liam Donaldson¹, Walter Ricciardi², Susan Sheridan³, Riccardo Tartaglia⁴

Affiliations

¹ Florence Healthcare Trust, Patient Safety, Florence, Italy
² Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
³ General Surgery Department, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy
⁴ Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Book Affiliations

¹ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
² Department of Hygiene and Public Health, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
³ The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine, Evanston, IL, USA
⁴ Italian Network for Safety in Healthcare, Florence, Italy

Excerpt

The World Health Organization (WHO) Safe Surgery Saves Lives campaign aimed to implement safe surgical procedures and patient safety best practices to reduce the incidence of adverse events both in the operating room and in the ward. For decades, the main objectives of safe surgery were mainly focused on the technical procedure. More recently, the implementation of non-technical skills and interpersonal communication have been found to play a significant role in preventing harm in surgical care settings.

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