Organizational and Cultural Determinants of Surgical Safety

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© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017Juan A. Sanchez, Paul Barach, Julie K. Johnson and Jeffrey P. Jacobs (eds.)Surgical Patient Care10.1007/978-3-319-44010-1_11 11. Organizational and Cultural Determinants of Surgical Safety Kathleen M. Sutcliffe1   (1) Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University, 100…

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Concepts and Models of Safety, Resilience, and Reliability

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© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017Juan A. Sanchez, Paul Barach, Julie K. Johnson and Jeffrey P. Jacobs (eds.)Surgical Patient Care10.1007/978-3-319-44010-1_3 3. Concepts and Models of Safety, Resilience, and Reliability Jonathan Gao1   and Sidney Dekker1   (1) School of Humanities, Languages…

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Risk Factors and Epidemiology of Surgical Safety

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Fig. 2.1 General and specific interventions across the system and evaluation end points (modified from Brown et al.) This epistemology of surgical safety is applicable to a wide range of…

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Tumors of the Central Nervous System

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Fig. 7.1 The 2016 World Health Organization classification of tumors of the central nervous system Because there are many different kinds of brain tumors, the number of children diagnosed with…

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Craniosynostosis and Plagiocephaly

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Type of craniosynostosis Suture involved Incidence Characteristics Scaphocephaly (dolicocephaly) Sagittal 40–60 % Bitemporal narrowing Frontal bossing Occipital cupping Palpable sagittal ridge Anterior plagiocephaly Coronal 10–20 % Nasional deviation Flattening of…

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Neuroimaging

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What Goal First line imaging Special considerations Brain tumor Diagnosis and treatment/therapy/planning/posttreatment follow-up MRI brain with and without contrast Strongly consider obtaining spine imaging to rule out any metastatic disease…

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Hydrocephalus

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Communicating Congenital  Achondroplasia  Associated with craniofacial syndromes Acquired  Posthemorrhagic: intraventricular or subarachnoid  Choroid plexus papilloma or choroid plexus carcinoma  Venous obstruction as in superior vena cava syndrome  Postinfectious Noncommunicating  Congenital…

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