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NCT Number: NCT04965285

Operating Room WHO Surgical Safety Checklist Process Completion: an Observational Study

The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist is a simple tool designed to improve the safety of surgical procedures by bringing together the whole operating team (surgeons, anaesthesia providers and nurses) to perform key safety checks during vital phases of perioperative care: prior to the induction of anesthesia, prior to skin incision and before the team leaves the operating room.

In 2007, WHO Patient Safety launched the Second Global Patient Safety Challenge, Safe Surgery Saves Lives.Anaesthetists, operating theatre nurses, surgeons, safety experts, patients and other professionals came together and came up with the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. The 19 items of the surgical checklist have shown to improve on mortality and morbidity.

Surgical time out is carried out before the start of any surgical procedures to reduce the occurrence of wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-person surgery where the patient's identity, the procedure, and the surgical site before surgical incision or the start of the procedure is verified. This also helps to raise any concern regarding the procedural risk and any concerns, prevent medical errors, patient morbidity, patient mortality, and reduce surgical complication rates.

The Checklist is intended as a tool for use by clinicians interested in improving the safety of their operations and reducing unnecessary surgical deaths and complications and also help ensure that teams consistently follow a few critical safety steps and thereby minimize the most common and avoidable risks endangering the lives and wellbeing of surgical patients .

The aim of this Checklist is to reinforce accepted safety practices and foster better communication and teamwork between clinical disciplines.

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Key information

Conditions

Safety Issues Behavior Health Behavior Patient Acceptance of Health Care Treatment Adherence and Compliance

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Nepal mediciti Hospital

Kathmandu, Bagmati, 44600, Nepal

About this study

Definition of terms A time-out is defined as "an immediate pause by the entire surgical team to confirm the correct patient, procedure, and site," for Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure, and Wrong Person Surgery for all accredited hospitals, ambulatory care centers, and office-based surgery facilities Elements that are clearly verbalized by the member of the operating room team performing the time-out were considered compliant Distraction is defined as any involvement in an activity concerning a non-life-threatening issue by any operating room team member, including conversations unrelated to the time-out, loud music playing, unexpected entrances, and personnel engaged in other tasks, among others.

The Checklist divides the operation into three phases, each corresponding to a specific time period in the normal flow of a procedure-the period before induction of anaesthesia, the period after induction and before surgical incision, and the period during or immediately after wound closure but before removing the patient from the operating room.

For each time-out procedure observed, the investigators will record compliance for each element of the time-out. Elements that are clearly verbalized by the member of the operating room team performing the time-out were considered compliant.

As each step of the time-out is verbalized by a team member, the operating room team members are expected to respond. The observations will be conducted by trained study staff using a standardized Checklist/ Proforma to assess surgical team compliance with the time-out protocol and to record general observations of the operating room environment. Any non-routine events that occurred during the time-out process will be recorded.

In each phase, the Checklist coordinator must be permitted to confirm that the team has completed its tasks before it proceeds onward.

Anticipated and actual blood loss, anticipated and actual surgical duration will also be noted

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Age above 18 years surgical patients undergoing surgery at Nepal Mediciti Hospital

Exclusion criteria

  • Emergency surgical cases, patients not being able to participate verbally

Treatment and study plan

quality assesment

Behavioral

For each time-out procedure observed, the investigators will record compliance for each element of the time-out. Elements that are clearly verbalized by the member of the operating room team performing the time-out were considered compliant.

As each step of the time-out is verbalized by a team member, the operating room team members are expected to respond. The observations will be conducted by trained study staff using a standardized Checklist/ Proforma to assess surgical team compliance with the time-out protocol and to record general observations of the operating room environment. Any non-routine events that occurred during the time-out process will be recorded.

In each phase, the Checklist coordinator must be permitted to confirm that the team has completed its tasks before it proceeds onward.

Primary outcomes

  1. Quality of execution of the WHO surgical safety checklist in routine clinical practice

    Time frame: 1 day

    to evaluate for quality of execution of WHO surgical safety checklist during routine practice before every surgical procedures in our institute.

Secondary outcomes

  1. To evaluate for any distractions and interruptions, deviations from protocol, and the problem-solving strategies used by operating room team members to mitigate the non routine events

    Time frame: 1 day

    to check for any factors that distracts or disturbs during conductance of WHO surgical checklist.

    to evaluate if there has been any deviation from protocol to check for any non routine events and any measures taken to overcome them

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Nepal Mediciti Hospital

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Registry information

Official study title

Operating Surgical Checklist Completion Out Before Surgical Procedures

Important dates

Study start
2021
Primary completion
2023
Study completion
2023
First posted
Jul 16, 2021
Registry last updated
Oct 31, 2023

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