Background: Surgical asepsis practices should maintained by the surgical team to prevent contamination of the open surgical wound. Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the surgical asepsis practices in the operating theatre of King Khalid Hospital, Najran. Methods: The researchers utilized a three data collection forms to collect the needed data about practices of surgical asepsis. Swabs obtained ...

OBJECTIVES To develop and implement a team-training curriculum. We hypothesized that better interactions between personnel would lead to improved patient safety, increased efficiency, and better staff satisfaction. DESIGN Prospective assessment of a team-training program. SETTING University-affiliated hospital. PARTICIPANTS Operating room physicians, nurses, technicians, and other personn...

In 2013, the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS), in partnership with the National Health Service of England (NHSE) began public disclosure of outcomes-data for individual hospitals and named surgeons. Data have been published for the following surgical disciplines: adult cardiac, bariatric, colorectal, headandneck,thyroidandendocrine,gastrointestinal,urological, vascular (plus intervent...

With six years of experience under his belt, Dr. Richards was hired as an anesthesiologist at a small private hospital. His first patient, Mr. Jarvis, was scheduled to undergo surgical resection of an abdominal tumor. Dr. Richards interviewed Mr. Jarvis and went over his record with him, discovering that his patient was 64 years old and had chronic hypertension. The attending surgeon, Dr. Palma...

Abstract Aims Service provision and assessing the impact of future innovations can best be assessed by accurate reproducible data collection. The traditional model for our ambulatory surgical clinic with ultrasound allowed booking directly from Emergency Department (ED) without discussion Surgical Team. We questioned whether this was correct changed to a team before in an effort better utilise ...