Key result
A review of operating room safety emphasizes that despite improvements, significant risks remain, requiring all personnel to possess specific knowledge and skills to ensure patient safety.
Why the study?
Although operating room patient safety has improved in recent decades, significant risks remain, making improved safety an increasing priority.
This review highlights the ongoing importance of safety principles and efforts to improve patient and personnel safety in the operating room.
OR safety has improved but risks persist; leaves open optimal strategies to prevent subtle adverse events.
Safety in the operating room (OR) has always been a major public health concern. It refers tothe safety of both the patient and the working personnel. Improving patient safety is anincreasing priority for surgeons and hospitals as sentinel events can be catastrophic for patients,caregivers, and institutions. Although patient safety in the operating room (OR) has improvedin last decades, significant risks remain. Adverse events may be subtle and delayed (as a centralline-associated bloodstream infection due to poor hand hygiene) or dramatic and immediate(e.g., a fire). All operating room personnel must have certain knowledge and skills to providesafety and quality care to patients before, during and after surgery. Review focused on thescience of safety principles and efforts to improve safety in the OR.
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EL-SAYED et al. (2021) conducted a review in Operating room safety. A review of operating room safety emphasizes that despite improvements, significant risks remain, requiring all personnel to possess specific knowledge and skills to ensure patient safety.
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