2012 AIMIS Summit - American Institute of Minimally Invasive Surgery
2012 AIMIS Summit - American Institute of Minimally Invasive Surgery
2012 AIMIS Summit - American Institute of Minimally Invasive Surgery
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Lecture<br />
The OR READY Movement<br />
More than 230 million operations are performed<br />
worldwide each year. Experts estimate that<br />
by following a series <strong>of</strong> safety guidelines, 2-3<br />
percent (roughly 6 million patients) could have<br />
better surgical outcomes each year. When<br />
applied in the OR, these safety steps can and<br />
do reduce complication rates and improve<br />
outcomes for patients.<br />
Top centers, leading surgeons, nurses and<br />
OR teams in multiple specialties have adopted<br />
various forms <strong>of</strong> these steps, and have been<br />
reducing error rates by 40 percent and cutting<br />
death rates in half. Regrettably, many hospitals<br />
and surgeons have not yet instituted these<br />
good-outcome-producing principles. Our goal<br />
is to encourage worldwide use <strong>of</strong> the OR Ready<br />
steps in all hospitals within six years, thereby<br />
improving surgical outcomes around the world<br />
for 6 million patients annually.<br />
James C. Butch Rosser Jr., M.D.<br />
FACS, Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> <strong>Surgery</strong><br />
Morehouse School <strong>of</strong> Medicine<br />
James C. “Butch” Rosser Jr., M.D., FACS<br />
is a surgeon, education and training<br />
expert, scientist, inventor, author, futurist,<br />
social advocate, television personality and<br />
trans-vertical policy consultant. He has given<br />
more than 350 invited lectures around the world and is immediate<br />
past president <strong>of</strong> the Society <strong>of</strong> Laparoendoscopic Surgeons.<br />
Paul Wetter, M.D.<br />
FACOG, FACS, Chairman<br />
Society <strong>of</strong> Laparoendoscopic Surgeons<br />
As one <strong>of</strong> the first surgeons to champion<br />
advanced laparoscopic surgery, Dr. Paul Alan<br />
Wetter brought together multiple surgical<br />
specialties to start a new type <strong>of</strong> medical<br />
multi-specialty society, the Society <strong>of</strong><br />
Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, which has become the largest <strong>of</strong> its<br />
kind in the world with more than 6,000 active members. He has<br />
served as chairman since 1990.<br />
Dr. Wetter established the Asian<strong>American</strong> and Euro<strong>American</strong> MIS<br />
<strong>Summit</strong>s. He is the co-founder <strong>of</strong> Medical Journal, JSLS, and he<br />
spearheaded the publication <strong>of</strong> the first-<strong>of</strong>-their-kind open-access,<br />
online medical textbooks, which have built-in language translation<br />
for worldwide utilization.
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