**Meet the editors**

Stanislaw P. Stawicki, MD, MBA, FACS, FAIM, is Chair of the Department of Research of Innovation, St. Luke's University Health Network, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He is Associate Professor of Surgery at Temple University School of Medicine. Dr. Stawicki has coauthored more than 560 scholarly publications, edited more than 15 books, and is a member of multiple editorial boards. He

is an expert in clinical research, health security, medical education, patient safety, traumatology, and surgical critical care. He has given numerous scientific presentations on three continents and is board certified in general surgery, surgical critical care, and neurocritical care.

Michael S. Firstenberg, MD, FACC, FAIM, is a board-certified thoracic surgeon practicing adult cardiac surgery at the Medical Center of Aurora (Colorado, USA) where he serves as the Chief of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery. He currently holds adjunct appointments in the Colleges of Medicine and Graduate Studies at Northeast Ohio Medical University and serves on the teaching

faculty at the Rocky Vista University. He attended Case Western Reserve University Medical School, received his general surgery training at university hospitals in Cleveland, and completed a Fellowship in Thoracic Surgery at the Ohio State University. He also obtained advanced training in heart failure surgical therapies at the Cleveland Clinic. He is an active member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, American Association of Thoracic Surgeons, American College of Cardiology, and American College of Academic International Medicine (for which he is a Founding Fellow). He currently serves as Chair of the American College of Cardiology Credentialing and Member Services Committee as well as being active on several other national society committees. He is the author of well over 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts, abstracts, and book chapters. He has edited several textbooks on topics ranging from medical leadership, patient safety, endocarditis, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, all of which include topics that he has lectured on worldwide.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Patient Safety is the Cornerstone of Modern Health-Care Delivery Systems 1**

Chapter 2 **Patient Safety Culture in Portuguese Primary Care: Validation**

Timothy Oskin and Michael S. Firstenberg

Margarida Eiras, Ana Escoval and Carina Silva

Chapter 3 **Communication in Surgery for Patient Safety 31**

Stanislaw P. Stawicki

**Considerations 115**

Vasiliki Kapaki

P. Stawicki

Glover

Chapter 5 **The Anatomy of Medication Errors 77**

Stanislaw P. Stawicki, Alyssa M. Green, Gary G. Lu, Gregory Domer,

**of the Portuguese Version of the Medical Office Survey 13**

Daniel Kinyuru Ojuka, Lydia Okutoyi and Frederick C. Otieno

Alex Alers, Philip Salen, Vikas Yellapu, Manish Garg, Charles Bendas, Nicholas Cardiges, Gregory Domer, Timothy Oskin, Jay Fisher and

James Nguyen, Kendra Davis, Giuseppe Guglielmello and Stanislaw

Parampreet Kaur, Claire Rickard, Gregory S. Domer and Kevin R.

Chapter 4 **Fundamentals of Medical Radiation Safety: Focus on Reducing Short-Term and Long-Term Harmful Exposures 55**

Chapter 6 **Combating Alarm Fatigue: The Quest for More Accurate and**

**Safer Clinical Monitoring Equipment 93**

Chapter 7 **Dangers of Peripheral Intravenous Catheterization: The Forgotten Tourniquet and Other Patient Safety**
