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Can a One-Page Checklist Ensure the Safety of Surgical Patients?

Since patient conditions differ in so many ways, surgical teams must make any number of on-the-spot decisions to help create the best possible outcome and save lives. If you or a loved one has been injured due to the careless or negligent actions of any type of medical professional, contact a Charlotte medical malpractice lawyer R. Kent Brown at Brown Moore & Associates, PLLC. He has extensive experience handling a wide range of medical malpractice cases.<br>

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Can a One-Page Checklist Ensure the Safety of Surgical Patients?

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  1. Can a One-Page Checklist Ensure the Safety of Surgical Patients?

  2. Since patient conditions differ in so many ways, surgical teams must make any number of on-the-spot decisions to help create the best possible outcome and save lives. Expecting a perfect outcome under these circumstances is not realistic. Still, across the U.S., a continuing high rate of preventable surgical errors occurs each year.

  3. The Current Checklist is Not Comprehensive A statement at the bottom of the Surgical Safety Checklist provided by the World Health Organization points out that it is intended for use as a foundation document that needs to be enhanced to fit local practices.

  4. The concern here is that not all medical providers have the skill or forethought to modify a checklist that essentially only covers the following basic considerations: ● Sign-in procedures involve such practices as checking the patient’s identity, marking the surgical site, checking for allergies, making anesthesia decisions, and several other common pre-surgical practices. ● Time out procedures occurs immediately before surgery begins. In addition to confirming that team members know each other and confirming that the correct surgical procedure will be performed on the right patient at the right surgical site, the team reviews any unusual considerations for the specific case. ● Sign out procedures document the name of the procedure, the instrument, sponge and needle counts before and after the procedure, and other issues that need to be addressed.

  5. When surgical teams do not rely on comprehensive checklists, resulting errors of omission can have major consequences to patients. Without the right reporting required by checklists, surgical teams may continue to repeat mistakes in future surgeries because they cannot clearly recognize avoidable causes of past adverse surgical outcomes. Identifying Surgical Errors of Omission Can Require Significant Investigation

  6. Hire An Attorney If you or a loved one has been injured due to the careless or negligent actions of any type of medical professional, contact a Charlotte medical malpractice lawyer R. Kent Brown at Brown Moore & Associates, PLLC. He has extensive experience handling a wide range of medical malpractice cases.

  7. Contact Details 930 East Blvd Charlotte, NC 28203 704-335-1500 https://www.brownmoorelaw.com/contact-us/

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