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Using a checklist as a tool for surgical safety promotes safe anesthesia, infection control, and efficient teamwork, keeping patient safety and comfort a priority.
Checklists are important tools for ensuring patient safety and reducing human errors in medical and surgical settings.
May support safer perioperative care; hypothesis-generating and requires higher-level trials before practice change.
Modern medicine involves highly specific and sophisticated techniques and equipments. However, human errors as well as equipment failure may lead to fatal accidents an increase in the cost of health care. Using checklist as tool for surgical safety involves safe anaesthesia, maintenance of open airway, correct surgical site, infection control and efficient communications and team work. Although no checklist is universal or guarantees absolute safety, an effective checklist has a patient centered approach and keeps patient safety and comfort a priority.
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Shukla et al. (2018) conducted a review in Surgical safety. Checklist was evaluated. Using a checklist as a tool for surgical safety promotes safe anesthesia, infection control, and efficient teamwork, keeping patient safety and comfort a priority.
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