Surgical Safety: Past Insights and Current Trends

This week we’re at the World Innovation Summit for Health, where we’re a media partner - the meeting is focussing on conflict, equity and resilience. 

In that vein, we’re joined by Christos Christou, international president of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to talk about attacks on healthcare staff, and the difficulty and importance of maintaining neutrality in conflict zones.

Ara Darzi, surgeon, executive chair of the conference, and author of the recent NHS review, joins us to talk about  antimicrobial resistance, and how diagnostics and a small funding commitment could head off the problem.

And finally, we change our focus to the US, and hear about new research into adverse events during surgery with authors Antoine Duclos and David Bates from Harvard Medical School.

Reading list.

We need to do more to keep antibiotics working

WISH report - Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance: How to Keep Antibiotics Working for the Next Century

Safety of inpatient care in surgical settings: cohort study