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Archive > August, 2010 Vol. XI, No. 8

Safety

Make Your Surgical Safety Checklist Your Own

Scott Hurlbert, MD

Surgical safety checklists are only truly useful when you take the time to make them your own. Here's advice on how you can customize the World Health Organization's Surgical Safety Checklist template (www.who.int/patientsafety/safesurgery/en) to fit your facility. For example, if your center, like ours, has difficulty following SCIP measures related to deep venous thrombosis prevention, you'll want to incorporate administering antibiotics at the right time and maintaining normothermia into the checklist.

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