(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-10-10)
Catchpole, Ken
“I’ve spent the last 15 years studying safety and human performance in acute clinical
care in general and surgery in particular. Using examples from cardiac, orthopaedic,
neurological, spinal, trauma and urological surgery, I will describe the results of
observational studies that have helped to understand how surgical performance
arises from the interaction between what people do, how they work together, and
what they do it with; how the introduction of new technologies can have far profound,
and not always beneficial effects; and what this might mean for the future of
healthcare delivery and workforce management.” Catchpole explains.