%0 Journal Article
%T Implementaci¨®n del listado de verificaci¨®n de cirug¨ªa segura
%A Arribalzaga
%A Eduardo B
%A Lupica
%A Liliana
%A Delor
%A Stella Maris
%A Ferraina
%A Pedro A
%J Revista argentina de cirug£¿-a
%D 2012
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X background: the checklist procedure is a useful tool within the strategies for safety of surgical interventions. objective: utility of the checklist for detection of technical or human failures. place: operating rooms division of state university hospital. design: observational prospective exploratory with retrospective analysis. population: consecutive scheduled operations during 12 months. method: indication loudly in different operative moments of a standards checklist for the responsible surgeon, the anesthesiologist and nurse circulating. results: there were 3680 operations programmed with implementation of the checklist in 100 %. there were 2116 failures (57.5%): of them attributable to the human factor 98,12% and technicals only 0.18%. in the preoperative, the most common failure was the lack of informed consent; in the intraoperative, lack of foresight critical events and in the immediate postoperative period, lack of operative protocols and discrepancy in the counting of gauze. . conclusion: the incidence of error in surgery needs to be reduced by a guidelines provided by the checklist, rapid and simple procedure which requires the commitment of the surgical team acting.
%K surgery
%K checklist.
%U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S2250-639X2012000100002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en