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There's plenty of checklists in the medical field as well. Specially during triage of all kinds. The main issue is that in most jobs people will say new checkl
by vasco 2y ago
There's plenty of checklists in the medical field as well. Specially during triage of all kinds.
The main issue is that in most jobs people will say new checklists won't work for /them/ because they understand it better than the checklist, or because the checklist will slow them down. Think about your own work and you'll find reasons why checklists don't make sense, I bet.
I once went in for a surgery on a foot and when rolled into the room the doctor asked me if I had any last minute questions and I asked only 'which foot are you operating on'. After a few seconds of confusion he gave a decisive right answer and even told me 'here, if it makes you feel better I'll sharpie your leg'. And it did make me feel better - there's so much that can easily go wrong by a minor mistake from them which will be life changing for you.
- recursivecaveat 2y agoUsually they are supposed to pro-actively ask you that I think. When I had a fracture in my upper arm everyone would ask me which arm it was. The patient is a good independent backup for easy flip/flop errors.
- energy123 2y agoError correction
- cma 2y agoWhy not put all post surgery patients through a cheap metal detector? Would at least catch stainless steel instruments.
- 5555624 2y agoYou'd need to do it before you close them up. Maybe a sterile wand?
- VectorLock 2y agoMy understanding is a lot of these things get RFID tags so they can be identified.
- kotaKat 2y agoAnd barcoded for quite some time. https://youtu.be/9GKogq44qHE https://youtu.be/9GKogq44qHE
- amenhotep 2y agoAlarming that that was a last minute question and an "if it makes you feel better" offer, honestly, even if it obviously went fine. On the day of my surgery I was constantly being asked what it was and on which side, by nurses, by the anaesthetist, the surgeon came and saw me on the ward beforehand and verbally confirmed it, palpated the correct area, and drew on me, and then on the bed before they put me under I was asked to lift the blanket and show there was an arrow and confirm that it was correct in front of basically the entire team. It would've been literally impossible to doubt that they knew what they were supposed to do.
- apercu 2y ago> in most jobs people will say new checklists won't work for /them/ because they understand it better than the checklist, or because the checklist will slow them down. I fought this fight for a long time as an executive in charge of ops with a team that had a critical enterprise product and refused to use source control.
- skeeter2020 2y agoSharpie marking for surgery before you're out of it seems pretty common, at least the ~3 times I've had anything done on one side.