Intraoperative Technical Errors in Hand Surgery: Prevalence and Potential Root Causes

Despite all efforts made by healthcare systems around the world to prevent medical errors from occurring, their incidence rates are still increasing, prompting World Health Organization (WHO) describe it as an epidemic problem. Realizing is a thorny, sensitive subject, difficult reach consensus on, and despite scarcity of sources related hand surgery in particular, well reluctance some individuals official institutions provide information about it, we decide tackle issue because its importance, especially since most these preventable avoidable, analyzing 245 cases detected or referred clinic Benghazi between January 2020 December 2021, who were suffering iatrogenic adverse effects previous surgical interventions. After excluding non-surgical errors, found that percentage intraoperative technical was 39.1%, with inadequate procedures being common at rate 65.6% lack appropriately efficient equipment reason for 32.4% errors. To conclude, practical special training discovery root causes best ways reduce them minimum.