Parental involvement in the preoperative surgical safety checklist is welcomed by both parents and staff.

Martin T Corbally,Eamon Tierney

doi:10.1155/2014/791490

Abstract

We involved the parents of paediatric patients in the first part of the three-stage WHO Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) process. Forty-two parents took part in the study. They came to the theatre suite with their child and into the induction room. Immediately before induction of anaesthesia they were present at, and took part in, the first stage of the three-stage SSC process, confirming with staff the identity of their child, the procedure to be performed, the operating site, and the consent being adequately obtained and recorded. We asked parents and theatre staff later whether they thought that parental involvement in the SSC was beneficial to patient safety. Both parents and staff welcomed parental involvement in the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist and felt that it improved patient safety.

Highlights

The past thirty years have witnessed major technological advances in medicine and surgery that have in turn generated an expectation that all aspects of care should be delivered faultlessly and without negative consequence to the patient. the latent marriage of human error and systems failure continues to contribute to shortfalls in care delivery and this is especially evident in the continuing risks involved in anaesthesic and surgical practice
The latent marriage of human error and systems failure continues to contribute to shortfalls in care delivery and this is especially evident in the continuing risks involved in anaesthesic and surgical practice
We explored the question of whether parents and staff agreed with and welcomed parental involvement in the first stage of the three-stage World Health Organisation (WHO) Surgical Safety Checklist

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Introduction

The latent marriage of human error and systems failure continues to contribute to shortfalls in care delivery and this is especially evident in the continuing risks involved in anaesthesic and surgical practice. These risks are not insignificant and are reported to be as high as 22% in all surgical procedures, with an overall mortality approaching 1% [1–3]. (iii) a final check by the surgeon, anaesthetist, and nurse before the patient leaves theatre. These checks are designed to ensure the following The checklist is in three parts consisting of (i) an initial check (time in) by the anaesthetist and his assistant;

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