Litigation costs of wrong-site surgery and other non-technical errors in orthopaedic operating theatres

Wrong-site surgery in orthopaedics.

Procedures performed at the incorrect anatomical site are commonly perceived as being relatively rare. However, they can be a devastating event for patients and doctors. Evidence from the United Kingdom and North America suggests that wrong-site, wrong-procedure and wrong-patient events occur more commonly than we think. Furthermore, their incidence may be increasing as NHS Trusts increase the ...

Wrong-site surgery.

Despite all the attention on this tragic problem and the emergence of proven protocols to prevent it, wrong-site surgeries persist. It's time to make them stop.

Decision-making in operating theatres

Wrong-site errors as likely outside OR.

Ensuring cleanliness in operating theatres.

High cleanliness of a hospital environment is necessary to ensure safe working conditions for the medical staff, a correct process of hospitalization and to protect hospital visitors, an aspect rarely mentioned. A supply of air cleaned in highly-effective air filters to hospital wards with air conditioning systems and exhaust of infected air will help in maintaining the required standards of cl...