[jsveb]

Originally Posted by Brian in VA

I'm giving a talk on surgical safety checklists and time-outs, and they tell us it is based on pilots and pre-flight checks. My question is: what exactly do you check and how? How's it recorded? What happens if you find something? I guess that's a few questions. Anyone have a checklist they could send me? Thanks ppot

B

Hi

I believe it is the way of specifying and conducting procedures that have been implemented by surgical teams, not the layout of checklists.
Instead of looking at checklists do some research on principles for crew coordination.