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Surgical safety checklists
Watch how Great Ormond Street uses WHO checklist on YouTube
BMJ 2009; 338 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.b518 (Published 10 February 2009) Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b518
- Barry G Lambert, locum consultant anaesthetist1,
- Imran Mushtaq, consultant paediatric urologist1,
- Martin Elliot, professor and cardiac surgeon1,
- Isabeau Walker, consultant anaesthetist1
- 1Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London WC1N 3JH
- barrylambert{at}mac.com
We support the National Patient Safety Agency in adopting the WHO surgical safety checklist as a standard of care in the NHS.1 2 3 Indeed, we have adapted the checklist and have been using it in our cardiac theatres for the past …
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