The World Health Organization surgical checklist has significantly improved surgical
safety, but it identifies only those 19 items of pre- and post-operative safety information
that are common to all operations.
1
No per-operative information is given. Despite the use of the checklist, the death
rate from surgery remains unacceptably high at more than 8,000 patients per million
patients (0.8%).
World Health Organization
WHO surgical safety checklist.
WHO surgical safety checklist.
https://www.who.int/teams/integrated-health-services/patient-safety/research/safe-surgery/tool-and-resources
Date accessed: February 2, 2022
2
This compares with a death rate in aviation of less than 1 air passenger per million
flights.
3
Significantly, all airline pilots use, without difficulty, operating manuals containing
unlimited high-detail information.
- Shepherdson D.
Major commercial plane crash deaths worldwide fell by more than 50% in 2019-group.
https://www.reuters.com/article/airlines-safety-idCNL1N296098
Date accessed: February 2, 2022
4
easyJet Airbus a320 Aircraft Operations Manual.
https://dokumen.tips/documents/airbus-a320-aircraft-operation-manual.html
Date accessed: February 2, 2022
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Publication history
Published online: April 12, 2022
Accepted:
February 14,
2022
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