Key result
Patient safety strategies must extend beyond the operating room to include multidisciplinary interventions throughout the entire perioperative period to prevent postoperative complications.
Why the study?
Most preventable harm to surgical patients now occurs during the perioperative period despite significant intraoperative safety improvements.
Patient safety strategies must be expanded beyond the intraoperative period to encompass the entire perioperative care continuum to prevent postoperative complications.
Supports extending safety focus beyond the OR; leaves open prospective validation of multidisciplinary perioperative strategies.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Patient safety has significantly improved during the intraoperative period thanks to the anesthesiologists, surgeons, and nurses. Nowadays, it is within the perioperative period where most of the preventable harm happened to the surgical patient. We aim to highlight the main issues and efforts to improve perioperative patient safety focusing and the relation to intraoperative safety strategies. RECENT FINDINGS: There is ongoing research on perioperative safety strategies aiming to initiate multidisciplinary interventions on early stages of the perioperative period as well as an increasing focus on preventing harm from postoperative complications. SUMMARY: Any patient safety strategy to be implemented needs to be framed beyond the operating room and include in the intervention the whole perioperative period.
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Velasco et al. (2022) conducted a review in Surgical patients. Perioperative safety strategies was evaluated. Patient safety strategies must extend beyond the operating room to include multidisciplinary interventions throughout the entire perioperative period to prevent postoperative complications.
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