WHO Surgical Checklist and Its Practical Application in Plastic Surgery

WHO Surgical Checklist and Its Practical Application in Plastic Surgery

The WHO surgical checklist was introduced to most UK surgical units following the WHO "Safe Surgery Saves Lives" initiative. The aim of this audit was to review patient's safety in the delivery of surgical care and to evaluate the practical application of the new WHO surgical checklist. We conducted a retrospective audit of patients who received operative treatment under general anaesthesia at ...

Practical challenges of introducing WHO surgical checklist: UK pilot experience.

WHO Safer Surgery checklist compliance amongst paediatric emergency plastic surgery patients in an UK hospital

INTRODUCTION The WHO Safer Surgery checklist has become an important component of perioperative safety. Our objective, was to determine the compliance of completing the checklist for paediatric emergency plastic surgery patients at our unit. METHODS An initial baseline was performed with 70 patients over two months at our unit. Following this, we raised awareness at an audit meeting and close...

Application of the WHO surgical safety checklist outside the operating theatre: medicine can learn from surgery.

Safety checklists in medicine are designed to identify a potential error before it results in harm to a patient. The World Health Organization (WHO) safety checklist was widely implemented in surgical practice in the UK after significant reductions in death, and peri-operative complications were achieved in eight countries worldwide in the 'Safe Surgery Saves Lives' campaign of 2008. Neverthele...

The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist.