Surgical Safety Institute

Checklist. Communication. Teamwork

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In surgery and in the air, the work can seem routine, yet the overall job is highly complex and unpredictable. Stress and fatigue can affect performance. And there's the challenge of working with a team of people, any one of whom could make a mistake that could ultimately end in loss of life. Then again, a member of the team could also detect an error while it can still be fixed and save the day.

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News:

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.

Dr. Richard Karl's article on Aviation and Medical Safety is published in the January Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery.

Airlines go two years with no fatalities

USF Health: Applying airline safety standards to the OR

Founder, Richard Karl M.D., featured in Newsweek

SSI Founder Richard Karl MD's article on safe surgery in the Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons

Surgical Safety Institute interviewed in Maclean's, Canada's Weekly News Magazine, December 4, 2006 issue

Surgical Safety Institute Recipient Of Tampa Bay Technology Forum Award

What Pilots Can Teach Hospitals About Patient Safety
- Surgical Safety Institute cited in New York Times article

Surgical Safety Institute Nominated For Emerging Technology Company of the Year award by the TBTF

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Training, Solutions & Support

Surgical Safety Institute provides the training and tools 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 Checklists™ and Emergency Surgical Safety Checklists™ provides the surgical team with the training and tools to increase the safety of every surgical patient.

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

Tools —
intuitive and powerful

  • Customized Routine and 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 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 tools 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 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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