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Old 15th January 2009 | 18:14
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BOAC
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A checklist for the operating theatre!

I can hardly believe it - apparently until now, hospitals have not had a formalised system to ensure:
1) It is the right patient they are going to cut open
2) It is the right bit of the right patient they are going to cut off
3) They have got all the tools back out of the patient that they put in.

You could call those the 'killer items'?

Let me see - when did people start doing operations? How long before they adopt some system similar to our CRM - to the nearest 1000 years? Heaven help us.
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