Successful surgery requires a patient with an accurate diagnosis, a treatment plan with an
acceptable chance of success, a skilled surgeon and supporting team, a range of …

Cardiac surgical outcomes are some of the most scrutinised results in medicine, both by the
public as well as the surgeons themselves. This has resulted in an extraordinary push for …

The earliest contributions of human factors engineering to surgery probably occurred just
over a century ago. Already well-known for their pioneering scientific approaches to …

Gillespie and colleagues have reported on their structured observations in operating rooms
to help us understand which factors (interruptions, communication failures, team familiarity …

191 urgency and occasional uncertainty with which decisions and interventions must be
made. This complexity, combined with heavy workload, fatigue and production pressures …

The past 5 decades have seen an incredible advance in cardiac surgery knowledge,
techniques, equipment, skill sets, and outcomes. Even as our average cardiac surgery …

Background Cardiac surgery is a complex, high-risk procedure with potential vulnerabilities
for patient safety. The evidence base describing safety hazards in the cardiovascular …

Surgical performance is a function of technical and non-technical skills, the latter of which
encompasses both cognitive and interpersonal skills. 1 The important role of intraoperative …

Breakdowns in teamwork that lead to surgical flow or operative disruptions are exceedingly
common, having been noted at a rate of 17.4 per hour in one cardiac surgery study19 and at …

There is evidence from a variety of sources that communications between members of
healthcare teams emerge as a key factor in poor care and are especially apparent where …