WHO Surgical Safety Checklist

The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist was developed by the World Health Organization ( WHO) in 2008 and is intended to check 19 points that have now apparently already been clarified before the anesthesia is initiated, before the surgeon makes the first incision and before the patient leaves the operating room. As a result, the error rates could be significantly reduced in extensive studies, in particular the endpoints complications after surgery and mortality after surgery decreased significantly and to a clinically relevant extent.

For example, the surgeon asks the patient his name and whether he should actually be operated on on his left knee - as planned. The surgical team introduces itself individually to make sure that they are there for the correct procedure. Before the procedure, the team should discuss possible complications during the operation. The checklist also requires that all medical instruments be available, counted before and after the operation. This will ensure that no swab is left in the patient. So all supposed to be taken for granted, but which should not be forgotten during any operation.

The German Society for Surgery has drawn its members' attention to the checklist of the "Safe Surgery Saves Lives Study Group" at an early stage and advised them to use it routinely after adapting to the local conditions in everyday clinical practice. In the Helsinki Declaration on patient safety in anesthesiology , the checklist is also required.

Individual evidence

^ WHO Safe Surgery Checklist
↑ http://www.who.int/en/
↑ http://www.who.int/patientsafety/safesurgery/ss_checklist/en/index.html
↑ AB Haynes: A surcal safety checklist to reduce morbidity and mortality in a global population . In: N Engl J Med . 360, No. 5, January 2009, pp. 491-499. doi : 10.1056 / NEJMsa0810119 . PMID 19144931 .
^ TG Weiser: Effect of a 19-item surgical safety checklist during urgent operations in a global patient population . In: Ann Surg . 251, No. 5, May 2010, pp. 976-980. doi : 10.1097 / SLA.0b013e3181d970e3 . PMID 20395848 .

Web links

[1] WHO Safe Surgery Checklist

[2] ttp://www.who.int/en/

[3] ttp://www.who.int/patientsafety/safesurgery/ss_checklist/en/index.html

[4] AB Haynes: A surcal safety checklist to reduce morbidity and mortality in a global population . In: N Engl J Med . 360, No. 5, January 2009, pp. 491-499. doi : 10.1056 / NEJMsa0810119 . PMID 19144931 .

[5] TG Weiser: Effect of a 19-item surgical safety checklist during urgent operations in a global patient population . In: Ann Surg . 251, No. 5, May 2010, pp. 976-980. doi : 10.1097 / SLA.0b013e3181d970e3 . PMID 20395848 .