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Development and content validation of a surgical safety checklist for operating theatres that use robotic technology
Author(s) -
Ahmed Kamran,
Khan Nuzhath,
Khan Mohammed Shamim,
Dasgupta Prokar
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
bju international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1464-410X
pISSN - 1464-4096
DOI - 10.1111/bju.12010
Subject(s) - checklist , patient safety , hazard , hazard analysis , surgical team , medicine , health care , medical emergency , operations management , reliability engineering , engineering , surgery , psychology , cognitive psychology , economic growth , chemistry , organic chemistry , economics
Objectives To identify and assess potential hazards in robot‐assisted urological surgery. To develop a comprehensive checklist to be used in operating theatres with robotic technology.Methods Healthcare F ailure M ode and E ffects A nalysis ( HFMEA ), a risk assessment tool, was used in a urology operating theatre with innovative robotic technology in a UK teaching hospital between J une and D ecember 2011. A 15‐member multidisciplinary team identified ‘failure modes’ through process mapping and flow diagrams. Potential hazards were rated according to severity and frequency and scored using a ‘hazard score matrix’. All hazards scoring ≥8 were considered for ‘decision tree’ analysis, which produced a list of hazards to be included in a surgical safety checklist.Results Process mapping highlighted three main phases: the anaesthesia phase, the operating phase and the postoperative handover to recovery phase. A total of 51 failure modes were identified, 61% of which had a hazard score ≥8. A total of 22 hazards were finalised via decision tree analysis and were included in the checklist. The focus was on hazards specific to robotic urological procedures such as patient positioning (hazard score 12), port placement (hazard score 9) and robot docking/de‐docking (hazard score 12).ConclusionsHFMEA identified hazards in an operating theatre with innovative robotic technologies which has led to the development of a surgical safety checklist. Further work will involve validation and implementation of the checklist.