Although the WHO (World Health Organization) Surgical Safety Checklist was published in a New England Journal of Medicine article last January, it bears repeating. Not only is it in a pdf form to be used by surgeons, operating room staff and others, it can be found in a YouTube video. Conversely, a video of how not to do the checklist (in this case it’s adapted for England and Wales, hence the British accents) has also been provided which might lead to wary guffaws :
“Hospital pilot sites in 8 cities around the globe have demonstrated that using a simple surgical checklist during major operations can lower incidence of deaths and complications by more than one third. The study was led by Drs. Atul Gawande and Alex Haynes, researchers at HSPH, in collaboration with the World Health Organization. The study appears online at NEJM.org.”
es that can be referred to for additional information are: safesurg.org and www.who.int/safesurgery
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