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Wed Oct 14 15:52:28 BST 2009

I'd be willing to bet that surgeon was Mike Sise!
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Subject: Re: Have you tried operating with a checklist?

During my residency, I worked with a transplant surgeon who had a huge chart for each of his transplant procedures. It made sure that all the team members (including anesthesia) knew what stage we were at and what came next. 
My colleague in vascular surgery has a similar one for his carotid bypass procedures. 
I remember hearing a talk in the trauma conference 2007, where a vascular surgeon mentioned that it has become a standard of care in his OR. 
Abdullah Al- Harthy
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From: "William Bromberg" <brombwi1 at memorialhealth.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:22:33 
To: Trauma-List [TRAUMA.ORG]<trauma-list at trauma.org>
Subject: Re: Have you tried operating with a checklist?

Like this?

1. Stop the bleeding.
2. Stop the stooling.
3. Sew the ends back together
4. Beer.

Seriously though I assume you mean more than the WHO time-out pre-op checklist? I'd like to see examples of what you mean.

Bill

>>> Robert Smith <rfsmithmd at comcast.net> 10/14/2009 8:49 AM >>>
I think that's a fascinating idea. Could you go into a little more  
operational detail about how you implement that in trauma cases?

Rob Smith

On Oct 14, 2009, at 7:54 AM, Sise, Michael (MD) wrote:

> Colleagues,
>
> Any of you tried operating with your own brief checklist of key  
> operative steps? You would be surprised how often it prompts you to  
> do things more efficiently and, about 20-30% of the time, reminds  
> you of something you're about to forget - usually trivial - but  
> forget nonetheless.
>
> Mike Sise
> San Diego
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