Patient Safety in Theatre Teams – A Practical Approach to Human Factors

This new multi-professional course has been specifically designed for the theatre team which would ideally comprise of a surgeon, an anaesthetist, scrub nurse and ODP. Utilising our state of art facilities, which include a team skills training theatre set up to create a realistic environment, the course focuses on the non-technical skills, or human factors, of the team in order to maximise the safety of patients and the clinical success of operations. Using advanced patient simulator mannequins and multimedia facilities, the course is mostly practical with each team being involved in a number of theatre based scenarios. Briefing and debriefing sessions are designed to help each individual team member work more effectively as part of a team.

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Convenor

Mr Liam Horgan
Operating Theatre Team Tutor
Consultant General Surgeon, North Tyneside General Hospital

The faculty will reflect the key areas of surgery, anaesthesia, nursing and perioperative practice.

Ratio 1:2 Faculty: Delegates

Level

Open to surgical trainees, consultant surgeons, anaesthetists, theatre nursing and technical staff (ie scrub nurse/first assistant and anaesthetic practitioner/ODP)

Content

In addition to, and as part of the theatre-based scenarios, the following topics will be covered:

• Outline of the patient safety agenda
• The role of human factors within the surgical environment 
• The WHO checklist 
• Recognition of how errors occur and how to minimise them 
• Identification of factors affecting performance and decision-making ability 
• Principles of team working and leadership 
• The impact of personality on teams 
• Using reflection and feedback to improve practice 
• Managing crisis in the operating theatre 
• Participants will be required to do some pre-course reading in order to gain a better understanding of human factors. This will provide a basis for further discussion during the course.
  

Fee

Thanks to a generous donation by the George Drexler Trust we are able to offer a discount on the course fee where the surgeon member is a member or fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The discounted fee is £1200 per team of four members; the normal fee is £2000 per team.

We encourage payment by trusts rather than by the individual team members. However, where this is not the case, the fee needs to be paid by a single credit/debit card payment or cheque.