Patient safety in the operating theatre: an overview

Abstract

Various studies across the world suggest that, on average, one in every ten patients admitted to hospital suffer harm from tests or treatments intended to help them. Such accidental injury is more likely to happen in some parts of the hospital than others. About 7 million operations are performed annually on patients admitted to hospitals in England and Wales, 1 so a large number of patients are exposed to errors and deviations from recommended practice, and some will suffer injury as a result. This paper describes some patient safety problems that occur in operating theatres and suggests ways to promote safety.

Patient safety awareness, knowledge and attitude about fire risk assessment during time‐out among perioperative nurses in Korea

“…communication and behaviour according to the patient's situation; Carbral et al., 2016 ), system factors (e.g. work environment; Edozien, 2005 ; Kim et al., 2018 ), contributing factors (e.g. organizational control, external factors of policies; El‐Jardali et al., 2011 ; Park et al., 2016 ) and problem factors (Park & Kim, 2019 ; Vaismoradi et al., 2020 ).…”

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With the recent advances in surgery due to developments in medicine, science and technology, the use of complex and enhanced equipment has improved patient care and safety. However, the use of excess anaesthetic gas, radiation, electrical and electronic equipment in the operating room, and the risk of infection and drug addiction are increasing, threatening the safety of patients and perioperative healthcare workers (Hey & Turner, 2016;Edozien, 2005). Therefore, it is ideal that perioperative nurses be sensitive to environmental factors along with awareness of patient safety and carry out preventive activities by acquiring updated knowledge of patient safety risk factors.Concerning patients' safety, risk assessment behaviours and accident types have been identified by looking at human factors (e.g.

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