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01-01-2009 | 2008 ssat other
Report of the 2008 Education Committee panel on “Teaching Safety in the OR”
Published in: Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery | Issue 1/2009
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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.