Ensuring patient safety in the new operating theatre of UMMC trauma Centre: an anaesthesiologist novice experience
Patient safety is a serious global healthcare issue. Harm can be caused by a range of errors or adverse events. Therefore, it is vital that the commissioning of a new operating theatre should comply to the highest standard before it is allowed to function. This paper accounts our experience in the c...
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| description | Patient safety is a serious global healthcare issue. Harm can be caused by a range of errors or adverse events. Therefore, it is vital that the commissioning of a new operating theatre should comply to the highest standard before it is allowed to function. This paper accounts our experience in the commissioning of the University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) trauma centre operating theatre(OT) complex in July 2008. We highlighted the problems we faced in adhering to the international standard guidelines. Unanticipated events were handled professionally and solved. With this experience, we hope that the identified problems would provide suggestions for commissioning an operating theatre in the local setting in the future.
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| spelling | um.eprints-17082020-07-20T06:55:03Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/1708/ Ensuring patient safety in the new operating theatre of UMMC trauma Centre: an anaesthesiologist novice experience Mamat, Mafeitzeral Chan, L. R Medicine Patient safety is a serious global healthcare issue. Harm can be caused by a range of errors or adverse events. Therefore, it is vital that the commissioning of a new operating theatre should comply to the highest standard before it is allowed to function. This paper accounts our experience in the commissioning of the University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) trauma centre operating theatre(OT) complex in July 2008. We highlighted the problems we faced in adhering to the international standard guidelines. Unanticipated events were handled professionally and solved. With this experience, we hope that the identified problems would provide suggestions for commissioning an operating theatre in the local setting in the future. Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya 2009 Article PeerReviewed Mamat, Mafeitzeral and Chan, L. (2009) Ensuring patient safety in the new operating theatre of UMMC trauma Centre: an anaesthesiologist novice experience. Journal of the University of Malaya Medical Centre (JUMMEC), 12 (2). pp. 83-91. ISSN 1823-7339, https://jummec.um.edu.my/article/view/4625 |
| spellingShingle | R Medicine Mamat, Mafeitzeral Chan, L. Ensuring patient safety in the new operating theatre of UMMC trauma Centre: an anaesthesiologist novice experience |
| title | Ensuring patient safety in the new operating theatre of UMMC trauma Centre: an anaesthesiologist novice experience |
| title_full | Ensuring patient safety in the new operating theatre of UMMC trauma Centre: an anaesthesiologist novice experience |
| title_fullStr | Ensuring patient safety in the new operating theatre of UMMC trauma Centre: an anaesthesiologist novice experience |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ensuring patient safety in the new operating theatre of UMMC trauma Centre: an anaesthesiologist novice experience |
| title_short | Ensuring patient safety in the new operating theatre of UMMC trauma Centre: an anaesthesiologist novice experience |
| title_sort | ensuring patient safety in the new operating theatre of ummc trauma centre an anaesthesiologist novice experience |
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