Imagine a plane starts barreling down the runway and just before it’s about to take off, the flight crew stops what they’re doing, runs through a two-minute generic “airplane” checklist, and then ...

The use of the World Health Organization's Surgical Safety Checklist in the operating room considerably lowers the risks of surgery, according to a new study. The use of the World Health ...

Studies show a new checklist developed by the World Health Organization may reduce complications and death from surgery by as much as one-third. It is patterned after similar checklists used by ...

Having step-by-step checklists on hand may help doctors and nurses manage emergencies in the operating room, a new study suggests. In situations when a person's heart stops beating on the operating ...

Jan 17 (Reuters) - Having step-by-step checklists on hand may help doctors and nurses better manage emergencies in the operating room, according to a U.S. study. Those lists can save time and ...

Boston – In an airplane crisis—an engine failure, a fire—pilots pull out a checklist to help with their decision-making. But in an operating room crisis—massive bleeding, a patient's heart ...

May 7, 2012 (San Antonio, Texas) — The Universal Protocol, designed to prevent wrong site, wrong procedure, and wrong patient surgical errors, can be insufficiently effective for strabismus surgery.

As much of 75 percent of an operating room may not be sufficiently cleaned or disinfected. For example, the three best-cleaned items in an operating room — main door, main field light and telephone — ...

Surgery might be less risky for patients if they have their surgical team follow a safety checklist, according to new research. The study looked at the use of the World Health Organization's surgical ...

Which hip is being repaired? Is this the right anesthesia? Do we have all the right surgery tools? Answering such basic questions from surgery checklists — and involving everyone as a team, even ...

The use of the World Health Organization's Surgical Safety Checklist in the operating room considerably lowers the risks of surgery. This is the conclusion of Axel Fudickar and co-authors in their ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Having step-by-step checklists on hand may help doctors and nurses manage emergencies in the operating room, a new study suggests. In situations when a person's heart stops ...