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The Intraoperative Team: Getting the Most Out of Collaborative Care in the Operating Room

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As surgery continues to become increasingly complex both technologically and procedurally, effective collaboration among intraoperative team members remains an important way to decrease errors and increase patient care safety. Multiple studies in recent years have shown that communication failure is the central issue in many critical incidents where patients experienced complications that could have been prevented.

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  1. Division of Perioperative Services, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA

    Debra A. Reeves RN, BS, BSN

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  1. Debra A. Reeves RN, BS, BSN
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Correspondence to Debra A. Reeves RN, BS, BSN .

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, and Perioperative Medicine, Professor, University School of Medicine, Portland, 97214, Oregon, USA

    Ansgar M. Brambrink

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, and Perioperative Medicine, Professor and Chair, University School of Medicine, Portland, 97214, Oregon, USA

    Jeffrey R. Kirsch

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Reeves, D.A. (2012). The Intraoperative Team: Getting the Most Out of Collaborative Care in the Operating Room. In: Brambrink, A., Kirsch, J. (eds) Essentials of Neurosurgical Anesthesia & Critical Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09562-2_16

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