510 Profit from Safety: The Risk-Smart Operative Manual

Desired Outcomes

• Apply a personal risk-tolerance scale - a boiling-point - to pre-op patient selection, intra-op technical strategies and post-op immediate recovery, to predict safer outcomes
• Harness a measured, Goldilocks strategy for our primary aesthetic surgeries - facelift, blepharoplasty, breast augmentation, and abdominoplasty - to realize an “aesthetically safer” outcome
• Implement a three-stage patient optimization protocol in the form of a pre-intra-postop comprehensive checklist to prevent errors of omission and commission
• Rethink informed consents with reverse engineering to both realign expectations and risk and to preempt complications and still honor aesthetic goals
• Accelerate your learning curve by auditing your outcomes and complications and integrating incremental improvements to achieve better results