Crisis recovery in surgery: error management and problem solving in safety-critical situations.

Petrut Gogalniceanu; Basir Kunduzi; Cameron Ruckley; Dragos V Scripariu; Nicos Kessaris; Francis Calder; Nicos Sevdalis; Nizam Mamode

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Crisis recovery in surgery: error management and problem solving in safety-critical situations.

September 14, 2022

Gogalniceanu P, Kunduzi B, Ruckley C, et al. Surgery. 2022;172(2):537-545.

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The patient safety field frequently adapts safety methods from aviation, such as checklists and crew resource management. Drawn from fieldwork, interviews with aviation safety experts, and focus groups with patient safety experts, this study adapted interventions from aviation crisis recovery for use in surgical error recovery. Twelve tools were developed based on three broad strategies: situational awareness and workload management; checklists for non-normal situations; decision making and problem solving.

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