Journal Reviews

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Surgery safety checklists

5 November 2021 | | Neurotology, Otology | Neurosurgery, Quality improvement, Surgical checklist, Surgical safety pause, Time-outs

The time-outs were based on pre-flight checklists adopted by airline pilots and were instituted in all accredited hospitals and ambulatory care centres in the United States in 2003. The guidelines originate from general surgery and are not specific for the...

Preoperative CT checklist (using the ‘CLOSE’ mnemonic) improves identification of anatomical variants for endoscopic sinus surgery

1 July 2018 | | CLOSE criteria, ESS, checklist, preoperative evaluation, resident training, sinus CT, sinus surger

Computed tomography (CT) scans of the paranasal sinuses act as roadmaps for endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) and careful inspection preoperatively warns the operating surgeon of critical anatomical variants. This study aimed to investigate if implementation of a pre-ESS CT checklist...