Alfred Surgery
An industry-independent educational plattform for surgery
Welcome
Dear Surgeon. You have chosen a way of life, full of joy and excitement, but also of sweat, toil and blood. As you progress in this amazing field you will constantly need to acquire new knowledge and new skills. You will learn from those who walked the path before you and you will teach those who come after you. At Alfred, we know your time is your most limited resource. Thus we have created a platform to help you stay updated, to provide the essentials you need in your daily work and to assist you in your teaching endeavours. Through cooperation with the most renowned surgeons in the world, Alfred offers everything from the essential background to the fine details of a procedure that can make all the difference.
We understand that you are creative and wish to improve your craft every day to provide the best care for your patients. Alfred will provide you tools to collaborate with fellow colleagues in your department and around the world – so you can learn and excel in your field.
Alfred is an industry-independent evidence-based expert curated platform for systematic education in surgery. Through standardisation, promotion of continuous improvement and cooperation Alfred will improve the quality of surgical care, minimise injury and reduce the cost of surgical treatment.
Collaboration
Surgery has become an extremely demanding and complex field of medicine. Cooperation and team-work are more important than ever. Each member of the team must know their tasks and have a clear understanding of the processes in order to achieve excellent care of the patient.
Alfred enables experts to develop standards for surgical treatment, ensure common situational awareness among team members and support each member throughout the process with safety and efficiency key endpoints. The standards developed in by experts can be tailored to suit different settings by local executing surgeons to ensure ownership and continuous improvement.
Standardisation vs. Variation
Standardisation is a cornerstone when improving processes as it facilitates education, reduces unwanted variation and increases efficiency. Due to the inherent faults in traditional methods to transfer and apply knowledge, standardisation of surgical processes have been deemed extremely difficult. Through Alfred’s functionality for collaboration – this has become both far easier and a lot more fun. However, patients and disease presents with a high degree of variation. Thus, Alfred is built to both standardise, but at the same time handle the natural variation present in surgery.
Safety and continuous improvement
Surgery is a continuously developing field with often small margins and high risk. Errors can carry high human and financial costs. By applying human factor science, the aviation industry has vast knowledge on how to build systems to prevent errors and promote a learning-culture. Through cooperation with aviation safety experts, Alfred has built-in functionality to disseminate knowledge about adverse events, facilitate continuous improvement and to benchmark performance. Alfred promotes transparency and ensures patients that if errors occur, the surgical community will learn from them and prevent them from reoccurring.
Developing surgeons
Dr. Maciej Pawlak, UK
Dr. Robbert Lindeman, Norway
Dr. Knut Borch. Norway
Dr. Mona Rydningen, Norway
Dr. Andrew de Beaux, UK
Dr. Chris Oppong, UK
Dr. Simon Patterson Brown, UK
Dr. Ed Felix, USA
Dr. David Chen, USA
Dr. David Lourie, USA
Dr. Jan Kukleta. Switzerland
Dr. Ralph Lorenz, Germany
Dr. Jorge Daes, Columbia
Dr. Hennig Niebuhr, Germany
Dr. Victor Radu, Romania
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Developing surgeons
Dr. Maciej Pawlak, UK
Dr. Robbert Lindeman, Norway
Dr. Knut Borch. Norway
Dr. Mona Rydningen, Norway
Dr. Andrew de Beaux, UK
Dr. Chris Oppong, UK
Dr. Simon Patterson Brown, UK
Dr. Ed Felix, USA
Dr. David Chen, USA
Dr. David Lourie, USA
Dr. Jan Kukleta. Switzerland
Dr. Ralph Lorenz, Germany
Dr. Jorge Daes, Columbia
Dr. Hennig Niebuhr, Germany
Dr. Victor Radu, Romania