WHO Guidelines for Safe Surgery 2009: Safe Surgery Saves Lives¶
World Health Organization. (2009). WHO Guidelines for Safe Surgery 2009: Safe Surgery Saves Lives: Safe Surgery Saves Lives.
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5 citations across 5 artifacts.
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Primes¶
- Confirmation Dialog
- Software and HCI: modal confirm dialogs, "type the project name to delete," two-step undo grace periods. Surgery and clinical practice: the WHO surgical safety checklist's pre-incision timeout; blood-product double-signature.
This sourceSpecifies the pre-incision "Time Out" — a spoken, team-wide re-affirmation of patient, procedure, and site at the last reversible moment.
- Software and HCI: modal confirm dialogs, "type the project name to delete," two-step undo grace periods. Surgery and clinical practice: the WHO surgical safety checklist's pre-incision timeout; blood-product double-signature.
- Time-Of-Check To Time-Of-Use Flaw
- The WHO surgical "time-out" is precisely the temporal-binding remedy: an atomic re-check of patient, site, and procedure performed immediately before incision, re-anchoring the authorization to the moment of action rather than relying on the stale ward-level verdict.
This sourceSpecifies the surgical Time Out immediately before incision to re-verify patient, site, and procedure.
- The WHO surgical "time-out" is precisely the temporal-binding remedy: an atomic re-check of patient, site, and procedure performed immediately before incision, re-anchoring the authorization to the moment of action rather than relying on the stale ward-level verdict.
Domain-specific¶
- Precondition for Unsafe Act
- The clearest slot-indexed countermeasure is the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist, which mandates a team briefing before incision
This sourceThe checklist's Time Out before skin incision, in which the team introduce themselves by name and role, confirm patient, procedure and site, and review anticipated critical events.
SupportedVerified against the source
- The clearest slot-indexed countermeasure is the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist, which mandates a team briefing before incision
Mechanisms¶
- All-or-Nothing Checklist
- Near the end of an operation, before the surgeon closes, the team runs the "sign-out" portion of a surgical safety checklist.
This sourcePlaces the team Sign Out near the end of the operation.
- Near the end of an operation, before the surgeon closes, the team runs the "sign-out" portion of a surgical safety checklist.
- Final Revalidation Before Commit
- The same shape appears far from software — the surgical "time-out" immediately before incision re-confirms patient, site, and procedure for precisely this reason
This sourceRequires a surgical time-out immediately before incision to confirm the correct patient, site, and procedure.
- The same shape appears far from software — the surgical "time-out" immediately before incision re-confirms patient, site, and procedure for precisely this reason
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