Implementation of Safe Surgery Saves Lives initiative in Ahmed ...

adopted so as to the cover the needed practices in cardiac surgery in AGCC, particularly thepreoperative preparation care that occur in the clinic and wards. Some of them particularly twoof the surgeons questioned the third criterion of measurability and raised some doubt. In practicalapplication they commented about the importance of quality management system improvement,data management and analysis, training and capacity building, increasing the awareness ofpatients and availing more resources to support the change.Using simple and short questionnaire, I conducted a survey about the checklist; most of the staffagreed as shown in figure 6 that the checklist is simple, applicable and takes less than threeminutes. Around two third of them agreed that the checklist is measurable. Most of the staffdecided that the checklist needs adaptation.Figure 7 shown most of the staff agreed that the checklist encourage communication, enhancedthe teamwork, helped recall, supported the systematic check and enhanced safety.Almost all staff agreed about the effectiveness of the checklist in creating safety culture andsafety practices. This approach of risk assessment in multidisciplinary team was provedeffectiveness in other high risk industries such as aviation, factories, and nuclear industries.In traditional hierarchy the senior inhibit the juniors, and doctors give no chance to other teammembers.This leadership skills, management tools, risk management best practice, was brought from otherindustries to healthcare services such as in the Safe Surgery Saves lives.44