Saturday, January 31, 2009

Operating Room Safety Checklist

Listen to this video as the surgeon (Toronto General Hospital) and his surgical team executes the World Health Organization's (WHO) Surgical Safety Checklist. The Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has challenged all US hospitals to a "sprint." The checklist should be implemented in the operating room theatre by April 1, 2009.

You might want to start with a single surgeon and evaluate several consecutive cases before spreading the tool to your entire surgical department.

Don't wait. Pursue excellence today.

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