The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist brings the evidence-based, life-saving checklist to mobile devices. The app can be used by virtually anyone, anywhere to ensure the proper "checks" occur prior to surgery.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over 234 million surgeries are performed worldwide. Unfortunately, over 7 million surgical complications will occur resulting in over 1 million deaths. Of these tragic deaths, it is estimated that nearly three-quarters are preventable. In 2007, the WHO launched the Safe Surgery Saves Lives initiative and published their now-famous checklist.
This 19-item checklist has been studied and validated in numerous countries and shown to significantly reduce morbidity and mortality associated with surgical procedures by simply adhering to its relatively simple list of items/questions. It has been published in numerous languages (although the app is English only).
The app takes the popular WHO Surgical Safety Checklist -- which has been championed by numerous medical societies, popular authors, and patient safety groups -- and adapts it to mobile devices.
- Checklist can be rapidly completed at the point of care with simple prompts or voice prompts
- Options to store data on app via secure passcode
- Available for Android
- More complicated to start checklist than it needs to be or there is still a "bug" that developers need to address
- No links to evidence, articles, or other information about the checklist
- Only available in English
This post originally appeared on iMedicalApps.