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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Acta Anaesthesiol Belg · Jan 2011
Case ReportsUnintentional side error for continuous sciatic nerve block at the popliteal fossa.
Among all fields of healthcare about 45% of medical errors occur in the operating theatre. Wrong site procedures remain one of the most preventable medical errors. ⋯ The surgical safety checklist was established in 2008 by the world Health organization (WHO) as a part of the "Safe surgery save Lives" initiative. We report in this article a case of wrong sided continuous popliteal sciatic nerve block and discuss the role of the WHO's checklist in preventing wrong side peripheral nerve block and surgery.