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Improving teamwork and communication in the operating room by introducing the theatre cap challenge

OBJECTIVE: One of the steps of the Surgical Safety Checklist is for the team members to introduce themselves. The objective of this study was to implement a tool to help remember and use each other’s names and roles in the operating theatre. METHODS: This study was part of a pilot study in which a v...

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Autores principales: van Dalen, Anne Sophie HM, Swinkels, Jan A, Coolen, Stan, Hackett, Robert, Schijven, Marlies P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8750134/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35001734
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17504589211046723
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Swinkels, Jan A
Coolen, Stan
Hackett, Robert
Schijven, Marlies P
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description OBJECTIVE: One of the steps of the Surgical Safety Checklist is for the team members to introduce themselves. The objective of this study was to implement a tool to help remember and use each other’s names and roles in the operating theatre. METHODS: This study was part of a pilot study in which a video and medical data recorder was implemented in one operating theatre and used as a tool for postoperative multidisciplinary debriefings. During these debriefings, name recall was evaluated. Following the implementation of the medical data recorder, this study was started by introducing the theatre cap challenge, meaning the use of name (including role) stickers on the surgical cap in the operating theatre. FINDINGS: In total, 41% (n = 40 out of 98) of the operating theatre members were able to recall all the names of their team at the team briefings. On average 44.8% (n = 103) was wearing the name sticker. CONCLUSIONS: The time-out stage of the Surgical Safety Checklist might be inadequate for correctly remembering and using your operating theatre team members’ names. For this, the theatre cap challenge may help.
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spelling pubmed-87501342022-01-12 Improving teamwork and communication in the operating room by introducing the theatre cap challenge van Dalen, Anne Sophie HM Swinkels, Jan A Coolen, Stan Hackett, Robert Schijven, Marlies P J Perioper Pract Original Articles OBJECTIVE: One of the steps of the Surgical Safety Checklist is for the team members to introduce themselves. The objective of this study was to implement a tool to help remember and use each other’s names and roles in the operating theatre. METHODS: This study was part of a pilot study in which a video and medical data recorder was implemented in one operating theatre and used as a tool for postoperative multidisciplinary debriefings. During these debriefings, name recall was evaluated. Following the implementation of the medical data recorder, this study was started by introducing the theatre cap challenge, meaning the use of name (including role) stickers on the surgical cap in the operating theatre. FINDINGS: In total, 41% (n = 40 out of 98) of the operating theatre members were able to recall all the names of their team at the team briefings. On average 44.8% (n = 103) was wearing the name sticker. CONCLUSIONS: The time-out stage of the Surgical Safety Checklist might be inadequate for correctly remembering and using your operating theatre team members’ names. For this, the theatre cap challenge may help. SAGE Publications 2022-01-10 2022-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8750134/ /pubmed/35001734 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17504589211046723 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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