“…We, therefore, designed a study that aims to evaluate the perceptions by members of a local cardiovascular surgery OR team of the various disruptive elements that might occur in the OR. We used a previously validated instrument to assess such disruptions, namely the Disruptions in Surgery Index (DiSI), which we have started to revalidate through cross-cultural translation and adaptation into Portuguese in a previous study ( 16 ) . Thus, the secondary aim of this study was to provide further validation evidence for the use of DiSI in Brazilian cardiovascular ORs.…”