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The program takes effect in SHC’s Perioperative Services — Main OR, Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) and the Stanford Medicine Outpatient Surgery Center (OSC) in Redwood City.
The checklist includes features already in place as a “timeout” before every procedure, and adds clinical enhancements throughout the perioperative process, such as an assessment of potential blood loss and a postprocedure discussion of “next steps.”
“The WHO protocol enhances the components of surgery, fitting in well with The Joint Commission Universal Protocol Process (preoperatively, intra operatively, as well as postoperatively) and other safety measures in place since 2003,” said Despina Chiampas-Johnson, perioperative compliance manager. The multidisciplinary team continues talking, evaluating and checking off items until the patient is handed off to personnel in post anesthesia recovery, she said. (See more)