John R. Romanelli, MD, FACS

Professor of Surgery

University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School - Baystate Medical Center

759 Chestnut Street, S3656

Springfield, MA 01199

Ph: (413) 794-3175 Fax: (413) 794-5940

Jonathan M. Dort, MD, FACS

Director of Surgical Education and Surgery Residency Program Director

Inova Health System

Professor of Medical Education

University of Virginia School of Medicine

3300 Gallows Road

Falls Church, VA 22042

Ph: (703) 776-3563 Fax: (703) 776-2146

Rebecca B. Kowalski, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Lenox Hill Hospital

186 East 76th Street, First floor

New York, NY 10021

Ph: (212) 434-3285 Fax: (212) 434-3250

Prashant Sinha, MD FACS

Division Chief of Acute Care Surgery

Associate Vice Chair of Quality and Clinical Integration

NYU Langone's Tisch Hospital

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

212-263-7302 Office

212-263-7511 Fax

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Thoroughly revised and updated new edition

Provides comprehensive analysis on key safety practices

Demonstrates pearls and pitfalls within patient safety

Defining Quality in Surgery.- Never Events in Surgery.- Surgical Dashboard for Quality.- Understanding Complex Systems and How It Impacts Quality in Surgery.- Clinical Care Pathways.- Tracking Quality: Data Registries (NSQIP, MBSAQIP, AHS-QC, etc.).- Accreditation Standards: Bariatric Surgery.- Training for Quality: Milestones, Mentoring, EPAs.- Implementing Quality Improvement at Your Institution.- Creating and Defining Quality Metrics That Matter in Surgery.- The Role of the Surgical Society in Quality.- Perioperative Risk Assessment.- The Current State of Surgical Outcomes Measurement.- Developing Patient-Centered Outcomes Metrics.- Optimizing Surgical Outcomes: Enhanced Recovery Pathways .- Optimizing Pain Management: Non-opioid pain management.- Taxonomy of Errors: Adverse Event/Near Miss Analysis.- Disclosure of Complications and Error.- Avoidance of Complications.- Safe Introduction of Technology.- Quality, Safety, EMR.- Surgical Timeout, Briefing and Debriefing: Safety in the Operating Room.- Effective Communication for Teamwork and Patient Safety.- Energy/Safety in the OR.- Patient Safety Indicators as Benchmarks.- Culture of Safety and Era of Better Practices.- Learning New Operations.- Team Training.- Simulation and OR Team Performance.- Debriefing After Simulation.- Simulation for Bad News.- Teleproctoring.- Training for Quality: Fundamentals Program.- Training to Proficiency.- The Critical View of Safety: Creating Procedural Safety Benchmarks.- Surgical Mentoring.- SAGES Commitment to Surgical Quality, Outcomes, and Safety.- Surgeon Wellness: Strategies to Avoid Burnout.- The Disruptive Surgeon.- The Second Victim: Handling Bad Outcomes (Paget).- The Surgeon in Distress: How to Train a Surgeon as their Skills Decline.- Fatigue in Surgery: Managing an Unrealistic Work Burden.- Training New Surgeons: Maintaining Quality in the Era of Work Hours Regulations.- Maintaining Surgical Quality in the Setting of Surgical Crisis.- Robot or Not Robot - Hernia.- Consistent Operating Room Team.- Routine vs Selective Cholangiography for Prevention of CBD Injury.- OR attire - does it impact quality?.- Provision of Less Care/Withdrawal of Care.- Changing Paradigm in Trauma vs General Surgery: Who is Best to Offer the Care?.- Super-subspecialization of general surgery - is this better for patients?.- What is the Connection Between Conflict of Interest and Patient Safety/Outcomes/Quality.