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In the early 2000's a paediatric cardiac surgical and intensive care team from Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital (GOSH) in London initiated a successful study in which they used the analogy of a Formula 1 pit-stop (with McLaren and Ferrari) as a template to improve the safety and efficiency of the handover of critically ill infants and children from the operating theatre to the intensive care team after complex heart surgery. It soon became apparent that there was a huge opportunity to learn from world-class professionals from other safety critical industries and sport.
To build on this success, and to engage healthcare professionals in this learning, a conference called Everybody's Business / Risky Business: Learning from other high risk industries was organized between Great Ormond Street Hospital and The Royal College of Surgeons in England in November 2006. The theme was to learn from defining or sentinel moments in other high-risk industries and discover which of these lessons could be translated to medicine to improve patient safety.
Following on the tremendous success of this first conference, an expanding collaborative venture evolved over the the next 3 years with 8 Risky Business conferences having been held around the world: (Three in London, Two in Boston, One in Phoenix, Geneva and Cairnes). The organizations participating in this partnership include: Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, The Children's Hospitals of Boston, The Children's Hospitals of Philadelphia, and Cincinnati Children's Medical Center, SickKids in Toronto, Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Dublin, The School of Child Health in Chandigarh and The School of Child Health in Cape Town as well as The London Fire Brigade, The CO19 London Police unit, The London Helicopter Emergency Ambulance Service, The Clinical Human Factors Group and The British Medical Journal.
With the last two Risky Business Conferences in London being sold out well before the event, it was decided that the best way to share the lessons and incredible talks from these conferences was to create a web site where as many as possible of the talks would be available free to the world. The web site also allows for rich discussion on social network sites on the challenging issues raised by the variety of talks. Furthermore, the web site will be used as a mechanism by which selected talks can be streamed live to overseas centres during future events.
In the early 2000's a paediatric cardiac surgical and intensive care team from Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital (GOSH) in London initiated a successful study in which they used the analogy of a Formula 1 pit-stop (with McLaren and Ferrari) as a template to improve the safety and efficiency of the handover of critically ill infants and children from the operating theatre to the intensive care team after complex heart surgery. It soon became apparent that there was a huge opportunity to learn from world-class professionals from other safety critical industries and sport.
To build on this success, and to engage healthcare professionals in this learning, a conference called Everybody's Business / Risky Business: Learning from other high risk industries was organized between Great Ormond Street Hospital and The Royal College of Surgeons in England in November 2006. The theme was to learn from defining or sentinel moments in other high-risk industries and discover which of these lessons could be translated to medicine to improve patient safety.
Following on the tremendous success of this first conference, an expanding collaborative venture evolved over the the next 3 years with 8 Risky Business conferences having been held around the world: (Three in London, Two in Boston, One in Phoenix, Geneva and Cairnes). The organizations participating in this partnership include: Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, The Children's Hospitals of Boston, The Children's Hospitals of Philadelphia, and Cincinnati Children's Medical Center, SickKids in Toronto, Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Dublin, The School of Child Health in Chandigarh and The School of Child Health in Cape Town as well as The London Fire Brigade, The CO19 London Police unit, The London Helicopter Emergency Ambulance Service, The Clinical Human Factors Group and The British Medical Journal.
With the last two Risky Business Conferences in London being sold out well before the event, it was decided that the best way to share the lessons and incredible talks from these conferences was to create a web site where as many as possible of the talks would be available free to the world. The web site also allows for rich discussion on social network sites on the challenging issues raised by the variety of talks. Furthermore, the web site will be used as a mechanism by which selected talks can be streamed live to overseas centres during future events.
