WHO Surgical Safety Checklist

The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist was developed by the World Health Organization in 2008, and is only 19 seem to have been clarified points before induction of anesthesia, before the first cut of the surgeon and before the patient leaves the operating room, check. Thus, the error rates were significantly reduced in extensive studies, in particular the endpoints of complications after surgery and mortality after surgery decreased significantly and to a clinically relevant extent.

For example, the surgeon asks the patient about his name and whether he actually - as planned - to be operated on his left knee. The surgical team meets individually with each other before, to be sure the proper engagement there. The team should be spoken before surgery about possible complications during surgery. Or the checklist requires that all medical instruments must be counted before and after the operation there. In this way it is ensured that not a swab in the patient remains. So all supposed certainties that may be forgotten in the OP but no.

The German Society of Surgery has its members informed early on that checklist of "Safe Surgery Saves Lives Study Group " and encouraged them, they routinely always use after adaptation to the local conditions in hospitals. In the Declaration of Helsinki on patient safety in anaesthesiology also the checklist is required.