Track 08 of 9
Patient Safety & Quality
Surgical checklists, never-events and team-based care.
Patient safety in surgery and anaesthesia now extends well beyond the WHO checklist into human factors engineering, crisis resource management, and the systemic prevention of wrong-site, retained-item, and medication errors. GCSA 2027 will cover sugammadex-driven reduction of residual neuromuscular blockade, quantitative train-of-four monitoring, BIS and processed EEG to limit anaesthetic exposure, and the environmental footprint of inhaled anaesthetics — including the global desflurane phaseout and low-flow practice. Sessions also address surgeon and anaesthetist burnout, second-victim support, and AI-enabled safety event detection from the EHR.
Focus areas
- Quantitative neuromuscular monitoring and sugammadex-driven extubation
- Processed EEG/BIS-guided anaesthetic depth and elderly outcomes
- Environmental footprint: desflurane phaseout, low-flow, TIVA shift
- Human factors, crisis resource management, and simulation training
- Wrong-site, retained-item, and medication-error prevention systems
- Surgeon and anaesthetist burnout, wellbeing, and second-victim care
- AI-enabled safety surveillance and EHR-driven event detection