Key result
Well-organized perioperative care, including the use of preoperative checklists, infection prevention, goal-directed fluid therapy, and perioperative nutrition, plays a crucial role in improving patient safety.
Implementing simple, evidence-based perioperative care elements such as surgical checklists and goal-directed fluid therapy can significantly reduce complications and improve patient safety in major surgeries.
Supports perioperative care bundles including checklists; leaves open confirmation of outcome benefits in prospective trials.
The Helsinki Declaration was created and signed by the European Board of Anaesthesiology (EBA) and the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA). It was initiated in June 2010, and it implies a European consensus on those medical practices which improve patient safety and provide higher quality perioperative care. Authors focus on four elements of this initiative, which can be easily implemented, and provide almost instant benefit: use of preoperative checklist, prevention of perioperative infections, goal-directed fluid therapy and perioperative nutrition. The literature review emphasizes that well organized perioperative care plays the most important role in improving patient safety.
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Horváth et al. (2012) conducted a review in Major surgeries. Perioperative safety measures (checklist, infection prevention, fluid therapy, nutrition) was evaluated. Well-organized perioperative care, including the use of preoperative checklists, infection prevention, goal-directed fluid therapy, and perioperative nutrition, plays a crucial role in improving patient safety.
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