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Surgical Safety Checklists: an Update [PDF]

Acta Chirurgica Belgica, 2014
Surgical safety checklists aim to improve patient safety by prompting the attention of the surgical team towards critical steps during the operation. The checklist's items are aimed to improve compliance with proven interventions, and to facilitate multidisciplinary communication and teamwork. Based on the current literature, corroborated by systematic
J, Bergs, J, Hellings, I, Cleemput, P, Simons, Ö, Zurel, S, Vertriest, D, Vandijck   +6 more
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Safety hazards in abdominal surgery related to communication between surgical and anesthesia unit personnel found in a Swedish nationwide survey. [PDF]

, 2016
Many adverse events occur due to poor communication between surgical and anesthesia unit personnel. The aim of this study was to identify strategies to reduce risks unveiled by a national survey on patient ...
Ohlsson, Elisabet, Ohlsson, Elisabet,, Sandblom, Gabriel,, Sandblom, Gabriel, Göransson, Katarina, Lundberg, Johan, Göransson, Katarina,, Lund University., Ljungqvist, Olle, Lundberg, Johan,, Ljungqvist, Olle,   +10 more
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Successful laparoscopic surgery in pregnant women [PDF]

Batna Journal of Medical Sciences
With its undeniable and well-documented advantages, particularly reduced invasiveness, laparoscopy has revolutionized surgery in pregnant women, largely supplanting open surgery. While this approach is increasingly used in this patient population, the
Zakaria SEOUDI, Razika IBAGHERACHE, Louiza IAICHE ACHOUR, Mohamed STOUTAH, Safia ALLAL, Sara MEHENNI, Radhia BOUDJEMA, Lynda SNANE, Samia ARAB, Lamia BOUDJEMLINE, Abdelkrim ANOU   +10 more
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Safety and transparency in surgical innovation

British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2022
Advances in healthcare require safe and transparent innovation. Currently in surgery it can be difficult to identify when innovation is occurring because of inconsistent oversight and reporting. New ways of identifying, monitoring and reporting surgical innovation are called for in order to optimise the process.
Blazeby, Jane, Cousins, Sian E, Pullyblank, Anne   +2 more
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The World Health Organization surgical checklist. A Compendium [PDF]

Batna Journal of Medical Sciences
Surgical patient safety remains a major and ongoing concern in healthcare systems worldwide. As part of a global initiative to reduce preventable harm, the World Health Organization introduced the Surgical Safety Checklist to help identify potential ...
Ryma HAMANI, Zakaria SEOUDI, Sid Ahmed TEFFAHI, Wafa CHATER, Lynda HALIS, Oualid CHACHOUA   +5 more
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Surgical safety checklists: a review [PDF]

ANZ Journal of Surgery, 2013
AbstractBackgroundSurgical checklists are designed to improve patient outcomes following surgery. While such checklists have been widely implemented worldwide, few studies examine surgical checklists within an Australian context. For this purpose, we have performed a literature review using data from OECD member nations to determine the effectiveness ...
Tang, Reuben, Ranmuthugala, Geetha, Cunningham, Frances   +2 more
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Safety and performance of surgical adhesives

PLOS ONE, 2022
Background Tissue adhesives are an alternative to conventional surgical sutures to reduce the time and cost of wound closure and to improve patient comfort. The use of tissue adhesives does not require any subsequent intervention and significantly lowers the volume and rate of blood loss, and reduces the need for transfusions during and after surgery.
Lukasz Szymanski, Kamila Gołaszewska, Justyna Małkowska, Małgorzata Gołębiewska, Judyta Kaczyńska, Bartosz Gromadka, Damian Matak   +6 more
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In-Hospital Mortality Risk Model of Gastric Cancer Surgery: Analysis of a Nationwide Institutional-Level Database With 94,277 Chinese Patients

Frontiers in Oncology, 2019
Background: The objective of this study is to identify independent risks and protective factors and to construct a mortality prediction model for gastrectomy in the Chinese population.Study design: This is a population-based prospective cohort at an ...
Zhouqiao Wu, Huimin Cheng, Fei Shan, Xiangji Ying, Rulin Miao, Jianhong Dong, Yihong Sun, Aman Xu, Yanbing Zhou, Yanong Wang, Lin Chen, Yingwei Xue, Hui Cao, Yawei Hua, Zekuan Xu, Minhua Zheng, Min Yan, Changming Huang, Jian Suo, Han Liang, Lin Fan, Jiankun Hu, Xiang Hu, Guoli Li, Peiwu Yu, Guoxin Li, Yiran Shi, Huayou Luo, Yong Li, Ming Xie, Tianxue Liu, Zhongyuan Zhang, Ting Shi, Ziyu Li, Jiafu Ji   +34 more
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The challenges faced in the design, conduct and analysis of surgical randomised trials [PDF]

, 2009
Randomised evaluations of surgical interventions are rare; some interventions have been widely adopted without rigorous evaluation. Unlike other medical areas, the randomised controlled trial (RCT) design has not become the default study design for the ...
Cook, Jonathan Alistair
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How Much and What Local Adaptation Is Acceptable? A Comparison of 24 Surgical Safety Checklists in Switzerland. [PDF]

, 2020
OBJECTIVES In 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) published the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist, and 3 years later, the Swiss Patient Safety Foundation adapted it for Switzerland.
David L. B. Schwappach, Schwappach, David L B, Fridrich, Annemarie, Annemarie Fridrich, Imhof, Anita, Anita Imhof   +5 more
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