{"id":70,"date":"2008-06-27T07:28:37","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T07:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pithyloquacity.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/05\/who-issues-a-surgical-checklist\/"},"modified":"2008-06-27T07:28:37","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T07:28:37","slug":"who-issues-a-surgical-checklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jha.in\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"WHO issues a surgical checklist."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/h1.ripway.com\/jhain\/SSSL_ChecklistWHOJun08.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width:800px;\" src=\"http:\/\/h1.ripway.com\/jhain\/WHOssl.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA lot has been written about surgical errors during operation including incidents of left behind surgical instruments, wrong site surgery, operating on wrong patients and so on.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO has issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/h1.ripway.com\/jhain\/SSSL_ChecklistWHOJun08.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">checklist<\/span><\/a> which it hopes will go a long way in reducing such errors by enforcing a &#8216;time out&#8217; when all personnel participating in a procedure will check and mark on the checklist ensuring compliance of necessary formalities. Such checks are further made at the end of procedure.<\/p>\n<p>I agree that such checklists and timeouts will be quite helpful in reducing the number of errors but surgeons are resourceful and dogged of determination; they will find a way around this.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside if you have read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0312421702\/104-7614536-4476749?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pithy-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=0312421702\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">books by Atul Gawande<\/a> you will be aware of his fascination for idea of checklist similar to those used by the Aviation industry(very effective) to reduce medical errors. His Harvard group and folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihi.org\/IHI\">IHI <\/a>and The International <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isqua.org\/welcome.html\">Society for Quality in Health Care<\/a> have been quite active at getting this off the ground.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\"><\/div>\n<p>WHO Safe Surgery Saves Lives ChecklistTechnorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/surgical%20complications\">surgical complications<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot has been written about surgical errors during operation including incidents of left behind surgical instruments, wrong site surgery, operating on wrong patients and so on. 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