Description
Part I. Perioperative Optimization.- Human Factors and Principles of Patient Safety: The James Reason Model.- Preoperative Testing in the Era of Cost-Containment: Is There a Limit?- Preventing Never Events: Checklist, Timeouts, Debriefings, and Skin Marking.- Reducing Perioperative Medication Errors: How to Build Safer Systems.- Managing the Patient on Antiplatelet, Anticoagulation, Beta Blockers, Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors, Angiotensin-Receptors Blockers: The Anesthesia Perspective.- Reducing Surgical Site Infections.- Perioperative Deep Vein Thrombosis Prophylaxis.- Handling Pacemakers and Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators in the Operating Room.- Traffic, Attire, and Distractions in the OR.- Handling Surgical Specimens to Decrease Errors in Pathology.- Blood Transfusion Safety in the Operating Room.- Part II. System Design and Improvement.- Detecting and Reporting Errors, Complications and Adverse Events.- Simulation Technical Training to Improve Saf
