Promoting a culture of patient safety: a review of the Florida moratoria data: what we have learned in 6 years and the need for continued patient education.

Patient safety and medical error reduction are topics of extreme importance. Although there has been considerable media controversy regarding reports of decreased patient safety and errors that have occurred in operating rooms of hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, and doctors' offices, the majority of data across various specialties demonstrate a very low incidence of adverse events resulting from office-based surgery. Limited research has been conducted in patient safety on the topic of outpatient surgery.

History of craniosynostosis surgery and the evolution of minimally invasive endoscopic techniques: the University of Florida experience.

Craniosynostosis is the premature and abnormal fusion of 1 of the 6 suture lines that form the living skull and can occur as part of a syndrome or as an isolated defect (nonsyndromic). The first reported surgical procedure for correction of craniosynostosis was performed in 1890 by Lannelongue who advocated releasing, but not resecting, the fused suture. Craniofacial surgery has developed its own identity in the last 3 decades, with the Frenchman Tessier seen as the founding father.