Key result
Surgical Safety Checklist improves operating room teamwork and helps prevent avoidable surgical errors.
Why the study?
Despite advances in surgical methods and instruments, the rate of iatrogenic errors has increased and could be prevented by applying a Surgical Safety Checklist.
Surgical safety checklists are simple, inexpensive tools that can improve teamwork and potentially reduce iatrogenic errors and improve operative outcomes.
May support checklist use to enhance surgical teamwork; leaves open outcome benefits pending higher-level evidence.
Methods of surgical interventions performing, modifications, instruments used for operation became more developed every year. In spite of this fact, tendency of increase of the rate of iatrogenic errors took place and it was possible to prevent these mistakes by application of Surgical Safety Checklist. The «checklists» are easily available, not very expensive in practice and they are simple to use. An application of such questionnaires could improve the team work and understanding between members of the crew, which could influence directly on operation outcome. The article presents the history of creation of safety list, the analysis of efficacy of «checklist» application in clinical practice in different countries, information about controversial questions in «checklist», perspectives of its application.
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Akopov et al. (2016) conducted a review in Surgical interventions and iatrogenic errors. Surgical Safety Checklist was evaluated. The Surgical Safety Checklist is a simple, accessible tool that can improve teamwork and potentially prevent iatrogenic errors during surgical interventions.
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