Articles: checklist.
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To introduce the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist into every operating room within a severely resource-limited hospital located in a developing country and to measure its impact on surgical hazards and complications. ⋯ Successful hospital-wide Surgery Safety Checklist implementation can be achieved in a resource-limited setting and can significantly reduce surgical hazards and complications.
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J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. · Apr 2013
Introducing transapical aortic valve implantation (part 2): institutional structured training program.
Introduction of a new procedure has a typical learning curve with the "learning phase" at the beginning, characterized by an increased mortality or complication rate. We developed our institutional structured training program for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) with the aim of eliminating these negative effects. ⋯ A structured educational training program enables implementation of a new procedure (TAVI) into clinical practice without increased morbidity and mortality rate during the learning curve. The program may also be used as a basis for any new device introduction into clinical practice.