Simple way to reduce morbidity and mortality in surgical patients all over the world

WHO has provided a simple checklist which we can apply to our hospitals wherever we work.This is from the current edition of NEJM.

www.nejm.org January 14, 2009 (10.1056/NEJMsa0810119)

A Surgical Safety Checklist to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality in a Global Population
Implementation of the checklist was associated with concomitant reductions in the rates of death and complications among patients at least 16 years of age who were undergoing noncardiac surgery in a diverse group of hospitals.

I suggest that this list should be posted in the surgeons clinic,pre-anaesthetic clinics and most importantly in pre-operative and operating theatres.

It is the simple things in life which when followed religiously lead to amazing results.

M

Keeping ourselves on track!!

I fully agree with my friend, Anuj, regarding scanning the journals and I can see Harjit already has done some work by scanning Intensive care medicine. I take responsibility of clinics. Let others also come up with ideas. Anuj, you can take care of CCM by SCCM.
Cheers!!