• Surg. Clin. North Am. · Feb 2012

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    Human factors and operating room safety.

    • Andrew W ElBardissi and Thoralf M Sundt.
    • Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA. aelbardissi@partners.org
    • Surg. Clin. North Am. 2012 Feb 1;92(1):21-35.

    AbstractA human factors model is used to highlight the nature of many systems factors that affect surgical performance, including the OR environment, teamwork and communication, technology and equipment, tasks and workload factors, and organizational variables. If further improvements in the success rate and reliability of cardiac surgery are to be realized, interventions need to be developed to reduce the negative impact that work system failures can have on surgical performance. Some recommendations are proposed here; however, several challenges remain.Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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