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Patient Safety in Surgery

  • Contains bullet-point lists of specific definitions related to complications and adverse events

  • Contains tables and algorithms which outline risk stratification protocols before surgery, and surgical salvage options for specific surgical complications

  • Contains an appendix with links for patient advocacy groups and other specialist contacts

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Table of contents (34 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. General Aspects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Quality Assessment in Surgery: Mission Impossible?

      • Daniel Dindo, Pierre-Alain Clavien
      Pages 3-10
    3. Incidence of ‘Never Events’ and Common Complications

      • Michael B. Cross, Cyril Mauffrey
      Pages 11-17
    4. Cognitive Errors

      • Dennis J. Boyle
      Pages 19-32
    5. Diagnostic Errors

      • E. Mark Hammerberg
      Pages 33-44
    6. Technical Errors

      • David J. Hak
      Pages 45-52
    7. The Missed Injury: A ‘Preoperative Complication’

      • Roman Pfeifer, Hans-Christoph Pape
      Pages 53-60
    8. Effective Communication—Tips and Tricks

      • Philip F. Stahel, Nathan Butler
      Pages 115-121
    9. Professionalism in Health Care

      • Hagen Andruszkow, Frank Hildebrand, Roman Pfeifer, Klemens Horst, Hans-Christoph Pape
      Pages 123-128
    10. Accountability in the Medical Profession

      • Jeremy A. Long
      Pages 129-135
    11. The Role of the Surgical Second Opinion

      • Ted J. Clarke
      Pages 137-150
    12. Compliance to Patient Safety Culture

      • Kendra L. Moldenhauer, Peggy Alder
      Pages 151-173
    13. The Universal Protocol: Pitfalls and Pearls

      • Philip F. Stahel
      Pages 175-184
    14. Handovers: The ‘Hidden Threat’ to Patient Safety

      • Tom J. Grundy, Nicholas A. Ferran
      Pages 235-243

About this book

In general, surgeons strive to achieve excellent results and ideal patient outcomes, however, this noble task is frequently failed. For patients, surgical complications are analogous to “friendly fire” in wartime. Both scenarios imply that harm is unintentionally done by somebody whose aim was to help. Interestingly, adverse events resulting from surgical interventions are more frequently related to system errors and a communication breakdown among providers, rather than to the imminent threat of the surgical blade “gone wrong”.   Patient Safety in Surgery aims to increase the safety and quality of care for patients undergoing surgical procedures in all fields of surgery.   Patient Safety in Surgery, covers all aspects related to patient safety in surgery, including pertinent issues of interest to surgeons, medical trainees (students, residents, and fellows), nurses, anaesthesiologists, patients, patient families, advocacy groups, and medicolegal experts.​ ​​

Reviews

“This first edition of the textbook, which provides a complete view of all aspects related to safe surgical care … . This is very pleasant reading, bringing useful aspects in debate and we recommend this book to every surgeon interested in improving his vision about what happens outside the operating room.” (Marius M. Scarlat, International Orthopaedics (SICOT), Vol. 39 (5), May, 2015)

“The 34 chapters, organized into four sections, and several appendixes present information in a concise but complete format. … This is a unique and much-needed book. It will serve as a resource for surgeons, anesthesiologists, operating room nurses, and others involved in perioperative care. It deserves to become a classic in this developing field.” (Carol Scott-Conner, Doody’s Book Reviews, October, 2014)

“This work is actually to regard as a worldwide reference in this field. It will have to appear in good place in the libraries of all the centers of traumatology, but to also be on the desk of all the trainees surgeons, but also seniors, who want to practice a rigorous surgery and with competence near the patients that misfortunes of the life directed towards them.” (Pierre Kehr, European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology, Vol. 24, 2014)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Orthopaedics, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, USA

    Philip F. Stahel, Cyril Mauffrey

About the editors

Philip F. Stahel, MD, FACS Department of Orthopaedics, Denver Health Medical Center, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA

Cyril Mauffrey MD, MRCS (UK), FRCS (UK) Department of Orthopedics, Denver Health medical Centre, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Patient Safety in Surgery

  • Editors: Philip F. Stahel, Cyril Mauffrey

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4369-7

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-4368-0Published: 03 September 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-6988-8Published: 22 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-4369-7Published: 20 August 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 513

  • Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Medicine/Public Health, general, Surgery, General Surgery

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eBook USD 89.00
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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