Anaes · Patient safety, human factors & CRM

Patient safety, human factors & CRM

Also known as Patient safety · Human factors · Crisis resource management · CRM · Surgical safety checklist · Never Events · Non-technical skills · Second victim

The patient safety science is the study of the harm and its prevention in the healthcare. The framework rests on the systems approach (the Swiss cheese model, the active and the latent failures), the human factors (the cognitive load, the fatigue, the environment, the equipment), the crisis resource management (the leadership, the communication, the situational awareness, the task management), the tools (the WHO surgical safety checklist, the time-out, the briefings and the debriefings), the non-technical skills (the ANTS), the critical incident analysis (the root cause, the learning), and the second-victim support. The anaesthetist is the leader in the perioperative safety.