OBJECTIVES This study was carried out to improve patient safety in the operating theatre by the introduction of perioperative briefing and debriefing, which focused on an optimal collaboration between surgical team members. DESIGN A prospective intervention study with one pretest and two post-test measurements: 1 month before and 4 months and 2.5 years after the implementation of perioperativ...

to evaluate the clinical results of endoscopic endonasal surgical dacryocystorhinostomy (ees-dcr) as team work by an ophthalmologist and an ear-nose-throat (ent) surgeon and the appropriate selection of the patients this study performed.all candidates for dcr underwent computed tomography (ct) scan of the paranasal sinuses (pns). patients who did not want a scar on the medial canthus skin or wh...

If you were to have an operation tomorrow, would you want your surgical team members to feel comfortable speaking up, to defy hierarchy, to interact with each other just as well as they perform technical aspects of the procedure? Would you want to feel like part of the team? Your answers to these admittedly leading questions are based on the culture of the surgical team and the interdependence ...

Although basic life support skills are not often needed in the surgical setting, it is crucial that surgical team members understand their roles and are ready to intervene swiftly and effectively if necessary. Ongoing education and training are key elements to equip surgical team members with the skills and knowledge they need to handle untimely and unexpected life-threatening scenarios in the ...

BACKGROUND Acknowledging the need to improve team communication and coordination among health care providers, health care administrators and improvement officers have been quick to endorse and invest in aviation crew resource management (CRM). Despite the increased interest in CRM there exists limited data on the effectiveness of CRM to change team behavior and performance in clinical settings....

OBJECTIVE To assess surgical team members' differences in perception of non-technical skills. DESIGN Questionnaire design. SETTING Operating theatres (OTs) at one university hospital, three teaching hospitals and one general hospital in the Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS Sixty-six surgeons, 97 OT nurses, 18 anaesthetists and 40 nurse anaesthetists. METHODS All surgical team members, of five ...