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Handbook of Perioperative and Procedural Patient Safety

  • 1st Edition - March 10, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Juan A. Sanchez, Robert S. D. Higgins, Paula S. Kent
  • Language: English

**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Perioperative**Offering a concise yet comprehensive review of current practices in surgery and patient safety, Handbook of Periope… Read more

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**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Perioperative**

Offering a concise yet comprehensive review of current practices in surgery and patient safety, Handbook of Perioperative and Procedural Patient Safety is an up-to date, practical resource for practicing surgeons, anesthesiologists, surgical nurses, hospital administrators, and surgical office staff. Edited by Drs. Juan A. Sanchez and Robert S. D. Higgins and authored by expert contributors from Johns Hopkins, it provides an expansive look at the scope of the problem, causes of error, minimizing errors, surgical suite and surgical team design, patient experience, and other related topics.

Key features

  • Presents the knowledge and experience of a multidisciplinary team from Johns Hopkins University, which created the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP), an approach for improving safety culture and engaging frontline clinicians to identify and mitigate defects in care delivery
  • Discusses the scope and prevalence of perioperative harm, causes of error in healthcare, and perioperative never events
  • Covers safe practices, cognitive workload and fatigue, and the effects of noise in the OR
  • Includes several team-based chapters such as the dynamics of surgical teams, safer perioperative team communication, and the culture of safety
  • Consolidates today’s available information and guidance into a single, convenient resource

Table of contents

1. The science of human error

2. The scope and prevalence of perioperative harm

3. Systems thinking in the operating room

4. Culture of safety

5. Dynamics of surgical teams

6. Structured perioperative team communication

7. Human factors and ergonomics in the operating room

8. Prehabilitation and enhanced recovery after surgery

9. Preoperative preparation of the surgical patient

10. Designing safe procedural sedation: adopting a resilient culture

11. Enhancing medication safety during the perioperative period

12. Surgical site and other acquired perioperative infections

13. Occupational well-being, resilience, burnout, and job satisfaction of surgical teams

14. Redesigning the operating room for safety

15. A perioperative safety and quality change management model and case study: Muda Health

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 11, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editors

JS

Juan A. Sanchez

Affiliations and expertise
Department of Surgery, Saint Mary's Hospital, Waterbury, CT, USA

RH

Robert S. D. Higgins

Affiliations and expertise
The William Stewart Halsted Professor, Chair and Surgeon-in-Chief, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Department of Surgery, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

PK

Paula S. Kent

Affiliations and expertise
Patient Safety Specialist, Global Collaborations, TeamSTEPPS Program Lead, Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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