Research Article
Proposal of a Surgical Security Checklist in Podiatric Surgery
| Manuel Cohena Jimenez,Jaime Garcia Paris,Antonio Cordoba-Fernandez*Jose Maria Juarez-Jimenez,Pedro Montano Jimenez | ||
| Department of Podiatry, University of Sevilla, C/Avicenna s/n, 41009, Sevilla, Spain | ||
| Corresponding Author : | Dr. Antonio Córdoba-Fernández Department of Podiatry University of Sevilla, C/Avicenna s/n 41009, Sevilla, Spain Tel: 034 954486539 E-mail: acordoba@us.es |
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| Received January 07, 2014; Accepted January 13, 2014; Published January 19, 2014 | ||
| Citation: Jiménez MC, París JG, Córdoba-Fernández A, Juárez-Jiménez JM, Jiménez PM (2014) Proposal of a Surgical Security Checklist in Podiatric Surgery. Clin Res Foot Ankle 2:126. doi:10.4172/2329-910X.1000126 | ||
| Copyright: © 2014 Jiménez MC, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | ||
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Abstract
The authors propose a surgical security check-list adapted to the podiatric surgery. This check-list is based on the Surgical Security Checklist proposed by the World Health Organization. The proposed document contains 18 items divided into two groups: those which are checked before the surgery and those which must be verified after it, before the patient leaves the operating room. The checklist is characterized as being an easy-to- use tool, it requires a short time and permits to systematically increase the patient safety. The authors think that the result is a checklist that is easy to fill and that improves the patient safety in the podiatric surgery.
