First black box ever in Belgian operating theater reveals secrets: “The more technical ingenuity, the more mistakes”

The door opens an average of 43 times during a procedure and there is often noise from alarms and telephones, but doctors and nurses work like ‘a well-oiled machine’. For three years now, a black box has been hanging in an operating room of the UZ Gent, which records everything that is said and done, just like on an airplane. “Why not in every hospital?”

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