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News:
May 4, 2009
Dr. Richard Karl's dynamic presentation "Forty Years in Operating Rooms and Cockpits" at the Annual Cancer Symposium for the Society of Surgical Oncology is made available.
March 26, 2009
Surgical Safety Institute becomes federally certified as a Patient Safety Organization.
February 27, 2009
Dr. Richard Karl's article on Aviation and Medical Safety is published in the January Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery.
January 11, 2009
Airlines go two years with no fatalities
October 15, 2007
USF Health: Applying airline safety standards to the OR
September 24, 2007
Founder, Richard Karl M.D., featured in Newsweek
April 2007
SSI Founder Richard Karl MD's article on safe surgery in the Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons
December 1, 2006
Surgical Safety Institute interviewed in Maclean's, Canada's Weekly News Magazine, December 4, 2006 issue
November 10, 2006
Surgical Safety Institute Recipient Of Tampa Bay Technology Forum Award
October 31, 2006
What Pilots Can Teach Hospitals About Patient Safety
- Surgical Safety Institute cited in New York Times article
October 16, 2006
Surgical Safety Institute Nominated For Emerging Technology Company of the Year award by the TBTF
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Training, Software Solutions, Support
When the surgical team is working at top performance, everything goes smoothly. The surgeon walks into a room that's ready. Everybody works as one. Problems are anticipated and mitigated. Time isn't wasted. Even when hindered by stress and fatigue, life threatening mistakes are minimized. Those few mistakes that are made are caught early and corrected before the situation snowballs out of control.
It's Surgical Safety Institute's mission to make your surgical team function that way everyday.
We offer you support, training and tools--modeled after aviation's crew resource management but created by health experts.
Training —
efficient and recurrent
- Situational awareness and decision-making
- Team skills
- Briefs
- Assertion and resolution
- Emergency team management
- Using Surgical Safety Institute tools to reduce error and improve outcomes
Computerized Tools —
intuitive and powerful
- Surgical Safety Screens™
- Routine Surgical Safety Checklists™
- Emergency Surgical Safety Checklists™
Support —
customized to meet your needs
- Initial site assessment
- Intense post-implementation monitoring
- Annual updates and analysis of your hospital's performance
- Ongoing assessment of how the Surgical Safety System is working for your teams
- Best safety practices
Clear Skies
It feels good to do your job well.
Sometimes a surgical team just clicks, especially when you have a lot of experience working together. But sometimes members of a surgical team don't have the long term working relationships that allow them to anticipate what people will do before they do it. Surgical Safety Institute's training emphasizes teamwork and communication, so that even new relationships in the operating room are intuitive, as if you've worked together for years.
And while Surgical Safety Institute training is critical, the tools we put in place are just as important. Our computerized Surgical Safety Screens™ provide centralized information so that everyone in the room knows what they need to know. Standardized briefs and Surgical Safety Checklists™ reduce the chance for human error in routine tasks. When the unexpected crops up, you have evidence-based emergency checklists at your fingertips. Those checklists prompt caregivers on certain functions, but they don't tell any trained professional what to do or how to do it. Pre-op and post-op procedures are standardized and streamlined, so there's less time wasted and less opportunity to make mistakes.
Surgical Safety Institute provides the training and the software you need to effectively decrease the chance of surgical error and, when an error does occur, to recognize the problem and fix it. This unique application of crew management techniques combined with the Surgical Safety Screens™ and drop down Emergency Surgical Safety Checklists™ provides the surgical team with the training and tools to increase the safety of every surgical patient.
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