While dealing with care of
patients who are undergoing surgical procedures, NABH recommends hospitals to
refer to WHO ‘Safe Surgery Saves Lives’ Initiative. In this post, I bring to
you a complete detail around the initiative and the checklist. This is also an
important example that Dr. Atul Gawande quotes in his book – ‘The Checklist
Manifesto: How to get things right’ and is one of my favourite books.
All the references are from the
WHO’s website.
You can read an overview of the
checklist on this page: http://bit.ly/OgsVIH
You can have a look at this 19
pointer checklist on the 20th page of the pdf available on this
link: http://bit.ly/NStgEM
I am sure you will have a lot of
questions on what this checklist is all about and how to use it and is it applicable
in your hospital. Don’t worry, WHO provides answers here: http://bit.ly/MtqbcY
And if you want to get a feel of
how to do this checklist, watch the video below:
I’ve shown this video to 2
different audiences and both agreed that this checklist is short and crisp and
can take care of a lot of elementary goof-ups that happen in their OTs and
enhance patient safety. If you noticed, it doesn’t take more than 2 minutes
each time you do the checklist. I think that’s time worth spent in protecting
our patients.
Update on 30/08/2013
Based on a viewer comment, I felt there have to be other illustrations and videos for Safe Surgery Checklist which helps in better understanding of its implementation.
Below is a video from a hospital in Australia where a patient is undergoing Hip Replacement procedure. This one has the Pre-Incision (Time-Out) and Post-Procedure (Sign-Out) shoot only, but in a better detail.
This is another video from St. John of God Hospital in Australia. This one has two-part, the first one about how to do the Safe Surgery Checklist, and the second one about how not to do the checklist.
Update on 30/08/2013
Based on a viewer comment, I felt there have to be other illustrations and videos for Safe Surgery Checklist which helps in better understanding of its implementation.
Below is a video from a hospital in Australia where a patient is undergoing Hip Replacement procedure. This one has the Pre-Incision (Time-Out) and Post-Procedure (Sign-Out) shoot only, but in a better detail.
This is another video from St. John of God Hospital in Australia. This one has two-part, the first one about how to do the Safe Surgery Checklist, and the second one about how not to do the checklist.
