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 Welcome to Patient Safety in Surgery
  An online journal published by BioMed Central

Patient Safety in Surgery encompasses all issues related to safety and quality of patient care in surgery and surgical subspecialties.
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Short report    
Intensivist supervision of resident-placed central venous catheters decreases the incidence of catheter-related blood stream infections
Thomas J Papadimos, Sandra J Hensley, Joan M Duggan, James P Hofmann, Sadik A Khuder, Marilyn J Borst, John J Fath
Patient Safety in Surgery 2008, 2:11 (30 April 2008)
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Case report    
Alcohol based surgical prep solution and the risk of fire in the operating room: a case report
Sumit Batra, Rajiv Gupta
Patient Safety in Surgery 2008, 2:10 (26 April 2008)
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Letter to the Editor    
German surgical residency training – quo vadis?
Michael A Flierl
Patient Safety in Surgery 2008, 2:9 (25 April 2008)
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Review    
Liver surgery in the presence of cirrhosis or steatosis: is morbidity increased?
Lucas McCormack, Pablo Capitanich, Emilio Quinonez
Patient Safety in Surgery 2008, 2:8 (25 April 2008)
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Research    
Effect of obesity on intraoperative bleeding volume in open gastrectomy with D2 lymph-node dissection for gastric cancer
Hirochika Makino, Chikara Kunisaki, Hirotoshi Akiyama, Hidetaka A Ono, Takashi Kosaka, Ryo Takagawa, Yasuhiko Nagano, Syouichi Fujii, Hiroshi Shimada
Patient Safety in Surgery 2008, 2:7 (24 April 2008)
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