Volume : VIII, Issue : IV, April - 2018

A PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF IMPLEMENTATION OF SAFETY CHECKLISTS IN SURGERY

Dr Aadhar Khera, Dr. Mohd Javed Banday

Abstract :

            INTRODUCTION

“Medicine used to be simple, ineffective, and relatively safe. Now it is complex, effective and potentially dangerous”–––––Chantler1. Humans will skip steps even when they remember them”. This has never been a problem in the past. Complexity of systems have increased beyond what humans can manage globally. More than 235 million surgeries are conducted annually (WHO 2008) which means that every 25th person on the globe is undergoing major surgery every year. According to careful estimations, approximately seven million injuries and one million deaths result from these surgeries 2, 3.Data suggest that half of all surgical complications are avoidable. This yearly volume now exceeds that of childbirth. 3,4   Surgery is performed in every community: wealthy and poor, rural and urban, and in all regions. The World Bank reported that in 2002, an estimated 164 million disability–adjusted life years, representing 11% of the entire disease burden, were attributable to surgically treatable conditions.3, 5 Although surgical care can prevent loss of life or limb, it is also associated with a considerable risk of complications and death. The risk of complications is poorly characterized in many parts of the world,

Aims and objectives

v To sensitize the stake holders and measure the effect of surgical safety checklist in all the patients undergoing major surgical operations.

v To investigate and describe the challenges encountered in the surgical safety checklist usage.

 To enumerate the possible recommendations based on the results achieved and to help improve the adherence to the surgical safety checklist usage.

Material and methods

 

This study will be conducted on 200 consecutive cases undergoing major operations both emergency and elective.100 cases will be having checklist and 100 cases will be control.  Major surgery is defined as all operations done under General/spinal anaesthesia in department of surgery of Maharishi Markandeshwar Institute of Medical Sciences and research, Mullana , Ambala  . These all findings will be documented in the proforma thereafter.

Summary and conclusion

The impact of surgical safety checklists on patient outcomes is likely to vary with the effectiveness of each hospital’s implementation process. Further research is needed to confirm these findings and reveal additional factors supportive of checklist implementation.

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DR AADHAR KHERA, Dr. MOHD JAVED BANDAY, A PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF IMPLEMENTATION OF SAFETY CHECKLISTS IN SURGERY, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-4 | April-2018


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