Risk and Safety Issues in Outpatient Procedural Medicine XVII explores common types of surgical flow disruptions (SFDs) and their potential impact on individual, team, patient, and organizational outcomes. The course highlights the importance of an interdisciplinary approach in prevention, while exploring strategies that can help procedural team members improve their response to, and learn from, SFD-related errors. It also offers a variety of methods and interventions to decrease the incidence of SFDs and minimize SFD-related harm.