Articles: checklist.
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Acta Neurochir. Suppl. · Jan 2011
Improving patient safety in the intra-operative MRI suite using an on-duty safety nurse, safety manual and checklist.
This paper describes the use of an on-duty safety nurse, a surgical safety manual and a checklist as an essential precursor to evaluating how these approaches affect surgical quality, communication in surgery crews and contribute to the safety of surgical care in the intra-operative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) suite.
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Avoidable adverse events must be subjected to continuous control to be detected at the time and prevent their occurrence. Its knowledge is essential to prevent them and their consequences and any effective action on the matter of risk management and health safety must be taken into account. Surgical checklists fulfil these requirements, making patient care easier and opening the possibility of effective communication with the group and with the patient. ⋯ In the preparation of this checklist, a review was made of other surgical checklists of reference, as well as the recommendations for producing one and the justification of its need in all interventional procedures of risk. A simple checklist has been designed, which is adaptable to the specific characteristics of interventional radiology. Nursing staff are the key professionals on the design and implementation helping to identify those conditions that may threaten the success of the intervention.