Improving patient safety in the intra-operative MRI suite using an on-duty safety nurse, safety manual and checklist.
This paper describes the use of an on-duty safety nurse, a surgical safety manual and a checklist as an essential precursor to evaluating how these approaches affect surgical quality, communication in surgery crews and contribute to the safety of surgical care in the intra-operative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) suite.
Department of Neurosurgery, Tokai University School of Medicine, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara, Kanagawa 259-1193, Japan. mike@is.icc.u-tokai.ac.jp
Mitsunori
M
Matsumae
Yasuhiro
Y
Nakajima
Eiji
E
Morikawa
Jun
J
Nishiyama
Hideki
H
Atsumi
Jiro
J
Tominaga
Atsushi
A
Tsugu
Isao
I
Kenmochi
D057189:Checklist; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008370:Manuals as Topic; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D009873:Operating Rooms / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017751:Safety Management / Q000379:methods*