Philip F. Stahel and Cyril Mauffrey (Eds.): Patient Safety in Surgery

Excerpt

This book constitutes the quintessence of the professional experience of a team of surgeons traumatologists of one of the greatest centers of traumatology of the USA, the Trauma Centers of Denver (CO). As of the introduction, the relationship between the surgeon who wants to save the life and/or the job functions of a wounded patient and the risks of the human nature is very clearly exposed. The incidents and accidents come generally not from a per-operative error, but in consequence of pre- or post-operative errors. The asked questions are as follows: how a patient can be sure that he deals with a qualified and reliable surgeon, how to know if the processing suggested is well the best and best adapted to its case? How finally to know if the surgical team is dominated by an immutable culture of the safety of the patient and a complete adhesion of all her members to the principles of this culture? How the patient can be certain that its case will not enter a learning curve of a new procedure or the training of a young surgeon? …