Wrong-Site-Side Surgery: a preventable medical error. Isn't it high time to make surgical safety checklist mandatory use in operation theaters with zero tolerance for negligence? Surgical safety checklists (SSCs) are designed to improve team communication and consistency in care, ultimately avoiding complication. In 2009, The New England Journal of Medicine published a special article entitled, a surgical safety checklist to reduce morbidity and mortality in a global population.
This study, supported by the World Health Organization (WHO), described the use of a 19-item surgical safety checklist (SSC) that was designed to improve team communication and consistency in care in the perioperative period. After implementation of the WHO SSC in eight diverse institutions around the globe, there were statistically significant reductions in the rates of death and complications. Following this…
