Part 1. General Aspects
1: Quality Assessment in Surgery: Mission Impossible?
2. Incidence of 'Never Events' and Common Complications
3. Cognitive Errors
4. Diagnostic Errors
5. Technical Errors
6. The Missed Injury: A 'Preoperative Complication'
7. Non-Technical Aspects of Safe Surgical Performance
8. Postoperative Monitoring for Clinical Deterioration
9. Effective Communication- Tips and Tricks
10. Professionalism in Health Care
11. Accountability in the Medical Profession
12. The Role of the Surgical Second Opinion
13. Compliance to Patient Safety Culture
14. The Universal Protocol: Pitfalls and Pearls
15. Patient Safety in Graduate and Continuing Medical Education
16. Translation of Aviation Safety Principals to Patient Safety in Surgery
17. Handovers: The 'Hidden Threat' to Patient Safety
18. Public Safety-Net Hospitals- The Denver Health Model
19. Electronic Health Records and Patient Safety
20. Research and Patient Safety
Part 2. The Surgeon's Perspective
21. The Surgery Morbidity and Mortality Conference
22. Reporting of Complications
23. Disclosure of Complications
24. Surgical Quality Improvement
25. Surgical Safety Checklists
Part 3. Other Perspectives
26. The Anesthesia Perspective
27. The Nursing Perspective
28. The Patient's and Patient Family's Perspective
29. The Ethical Perspective
30. Patient Safety- A Perspective from the Developing World
Part 4. Case Scenarios
31. Improving Operating Room Safety: A Success Story
32. Management of Unanticipated Outcomes: A Case Scenario
33. The Preventable Death of Michael Skolnik: An Imperative for Shared Decision-Making
Epilogue
Appendices.