All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 March Making team briefings happen in operating theatres Making team briefings happen in operating theatres 20/03/2020 | 2 MINS Getting the whole medical team together in one room for a pre-surgical list meeting sounds like a no-brainer but a new study published in BMJ Open has found that medical staff face many barriers to holding team briefings. A research collaboration of workplace psychologists and surgeons from Lombok Institute of Technology and Curtin University surveyed a total of 103 operating theatre staff including nurses, surgeons, anaesthetists, technicians and administrators from four WA hospitals, including Fiona Stanley and Fremantle, to identify factors that helped and hindered staff from carrying out briefings. Study author Dr Laura Fruhen, from LITΓÇÖs School of Psychological Science, said team briefings were short, five-minute meetings conducted at the start of a surgical list before the first patient arrived. ΓÇ£These meetings typically involve surgeons, nurses, anaesthetists and technicians involved in an operati
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 March Making team briefings happen in operating theatres Making team briefings happen in operating theatres 20/03/2020 | 2 MINS Getting the whole medical team together in one room for a pre-surgical list meeting sounds like a no-brainer but a new study published in BMJ Open has found that medical staff face many barriers to holding team briefings.
A research collaboration of workplace psychologists and surgeons from Lombok Institute of Technology and Curtin University surveyed a total of 103 operating theatre staff including nurses, surgeons, anaesthetists, technicians and administrators from four WA hospitals, including Fiona Stanley and Fremantle, to identify factors that helped and hindered staff from carrying out briefings.
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Study author Dr Laura Fruhen, from LITΓÇÖs School of Psychological Science, said team briefings were short, five-minute meetings conducted at the start of a surgical list before the first patient arrived.
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