Applying the safe surgery checklist: An experience report

Authors

  • Ana Paula Pancieri Enfermeira. Especialista em Centro Cirúrgico, Recuperação Anestésica e Centro de Material e Esterilização pela Faculdade de Enfermagem do Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein (FEHIAE). Enfermeira no Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu (HCFMB).
  • Rachel de Carvalho
  • Eliana Mara Braga Enfermeira. Especialista em Cardiologia e Centro Cirúrgico. Mestre e Doutora em Enfermagem pela Escola de Enfermagem da USP. Docente dos Cursos de Graduação e de Pós-Graduação da FEHIAE. Coordenadora do Curso de Pós-Graduação da FEHIAE.

Keywords:

Patient safety. Operating rooms. Checklist. Operating room nursing. Perioperative nursing.

Abstract

Objective: to report the experience in applying the safe surgery checklist proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO). Method: a descriptive, narrative, level 1 study, of experience report type, with the application of the safe surgery checklist, following
the three stages recommended by WHO, to 30 anesthetic and surgical procedures carried out in a teaching hospital in São Paulo state in the second semester of 2011. Conclusion: we identified the need to include and change some items in the checklist and fill in the
items in the post-anesthetic recovery room. It’s important that the nurse or the checklist coordinator are able to master the checking, know how to conduct all the proposed items responsibly and ethically, and emphasize the responsibility of each participant professional.
Communication is essential for the proper conduct of this procedure and the checklist guarantees its best performance.

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2014-03-31

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Pancieri, A. P., Carvalho, R. de, & Braga, E. M. (2014). Applying the safe surgery checklist: An experience report. Revista SOBECC, 19(1), 26–33. Retrieved from https://revista.sobecc.org.br/sobecc/article/view/50

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Vol. 19 No. 1 (2014)

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CASE REPORT

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