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Local documentation for handover to recovery, and recovery to subsequent place of care, requires documented and verbal confirmation that lines not in active use have been removed and multi-lumen connectors and cannulae have been removed or flushed.all cannulae have been identified and either removed or adequately flushed.

any multi-lumen connector without active flow through all its arms is removed or if this is not possible because a patient cannot tolerate even brief interruptions to essential drug or fluid delivery, that all arms have been adequately flushed.all intravenous administration sets, and extension sets without active flow, have been removed.The Sign Out section of the Surgical Safety Checklist to include sections for confirming that, before a patient leaves the procedural area:.

Note that although the alert is titled WHO Surgical Safety Checklist, it recognises that locally the checklist can be added to, adapted, and used in related areas eg electroconvulsive therapy.

WHO Surgical Safety Checklist: Ensure the checklist is completed for every patient undergoing a surgical procedure (including local anaesthesia), and that the use of the checklist is entered in the clinical notes or electronic record by a registered member of the team for example, surgeon, anaesthetist, nurse, ODP.

This page is part of the wider ‘ enduring standards that remain valid from previous patient safety alerts‘ set of webpages.Įnduring standards applicable to anaesthesia, surgical specialties, or maternity services, that remain valid from past alerts are:

Enduring standards that remain valid from previous patient safety alerts.

Enduring standards and general principles from previously issued patient safety alerts.