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7 0 S U P P L E M E N T T O O U T P A T I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E J U N E 2 0 1 6 A bout 40 years ago, the airline industry realized it had a problem. Each pilot and flight crew had their own way of doing things, and the variability was lead- ing to deadly mistakes and crashes. The industry even- tually invested in High Reliability solutions, and transformed flying into the safe standardized and pre- dictable experience it is today. Now it's time to do the same for surgery. Spence Byrum will share the concepts of High Reliability and how they can work in your facility to improve patient care and outcomes. • The start of High Reliability solutions. I started out as a Coast Guard pilot. Back in those Make Your Facility a High Reliability Organization Implement standardized, evidence-based practices to boost efficiency and patient safety. • CEO and co-founder of HRS (High Reliability Solutions) Consulting, Inc. • Former pilot and safety officer for the U.S. Coast Guard. • Has helped more than 600 facilities implement High Reliability solutions. Spence Byrum Speaker Profile Special ORX Workshop days, we didn't have a lot of High Reliability tools. Pilots did things in a fairly organ- ized manner, but we didn't always fully utilize check- lists, Crew Resource Management and things like that. As a result, planes crashed much more fre- quently than they do today. The industry decided there had to be another way to do things. So, we embraced this idea of High Reliability, and flying became much safer. Other industries, including health care, started to look at how aviation standardized these best practices, and they wanted to see how it could apply to them. • The ideal surgical facili- ty. The ideal facility would be one that standardizes process- es and procedures wherever possible. It does not rush through site verification, marking, the time out or the count. It values the input of all team members and