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Social sciences
- Work and organisational psychology
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Medical and health sciences
- Vascular surgery
Patient safety and medical error remain important issues in healthcare systems worldwide. Vascular surgery has advanced towards minimally invasive endovascular procedures which take place in the hybrid operating room using X-ray imaging. Despite these advancements, relatively high rates of errors and adverse events still occur. This poses the question: how can we observe, understand and prevent these errors to create a safer hybrid operating room? To explore this, our research group installed the first "Operating Room Black Box" in a hybrid operating room, recording patient vitals and panoramic intraoperative video and audio data as a “fly on the wall”. Analysis of these recordings, together with the input of expert physicians, psychologists and medical physicists, will provide unique insights into technical and non-technical skills (communication, leadership, decision making), quality of care and radiation safety during vascular surgery. Together, the aims in this proposal will provide personalised video-based feedback to enhance endovascular surgical training, facilitate postoperative debriefing of safety threats and positive safety behaviour, and assess the impact of a new X-ray reducing technology on team performance and radiation safety. The successful implementation of these initiatives will form strong evidence-based strategies to reduce error and enhance healthcare personnel and patient safety in vascular surgery going forward