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Report of the 2008 Education Committee panel on “Teaching Safety in the OR”

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Abstract

Introduction

At the 2008 Digestive Diseases Week, the Education Committee of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract sponsored a symposium entitled “Teaching Safety in the OR.”

Discussion

Four panelists presented perspectives on learning from adverse events and near misses, lessons learned from aviation, who should and should not be in the operating theatre, and building better teams.

Conclusion

A common theme is that we can always do better when is comes to promoting patient safety.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Daniel B. Jones

  2. Section for Minimally Invasive Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02215, USA

    Daniel B. Jones

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This introduction was originally presented as part of the SSAT Education Committee Panel on Teaching Safety in the OR at the SSAT 49th Annual Meeting, May 2008, in San Diego, California. The other articles presented in the panel were Greenberg CC, Learning from Adverse Events and Near Misses; Karl RC, Aviation; Sudan DL, Safety in the OR: Who’s In and Who’s Out?; and Moorman DW, Building Better Teams in Surgery.

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Jones, D.B. Report of the 2008 Education Committee panel on “Teaching Safety in the OR”. J Gastrointest Surg 13, 1–2 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11605-008-0694-5

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