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The WHO surgical safety checklist
Final SAQ — the sign-in, the time-out, the sign-out; the 19 items (the identity, the site, the consent, the allergies, the airway, the blood, the antibiotics, the team intros); the evidence (the reduced mortality and the morbidity); and the genuine team engagement over the box-ticking.
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Describe the WHO surgical safety checklist, its components, its evidence, and the factors that determine its effectiveness.
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Describe the WHO surgical safety checklist, its components, its evidence, and the factors that determine its effectiveness.
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- [42241583]Bersten AD, Soni N (eds) Oh's Intensive Care Manual. 8th edition, Elsevier, 2018.