Maha Mohammad Bindahman¹, Nawal Saeed Banafa²* and Fahmi Omer Aram³

¹Assistant Professor Anaesthesia, Fundamental Medical Sciences Department, Hadhramout University, Yemen
²Associate Professor Community Medicine, Fundamental Medical Sciences Department, Hadhramout University, Yemen
³Professor in Surgery, Department of Surgery, Hadhramout University, Yemen

*Corresponding Author: Nawal Saeed Banafa, Associate Professor Community Medicine, Faculty of Nursing, Hadhramout University, Mukalla, Hadhramout, Yemen.

Received: June 11, 2018; Published: July 10, 2018

Citation: Nawal Saeed Banafa., et al. “Implementation of Surgical Safety Checklist in Mukalla Hospitals; Yemen”. Acta Scientific Medical Sciences 2.5 (2018).

Abstract

Background: The use of WHO surgical safety checklist results in striking improvements in surgical outcomes and decreases effectively the adverse events; accordingly, it necessitates rapid adoption worldwide. We are going to assess the extent of application of such checklist in our surgical setting.

Method: We surveyed all six hospitals in Mukalla city in three months period (Aug-Oct 2016), Observations and interviews were conducted using already prepared forms. The data was analyzed by SPSS version 20.

Results: Six hospitals performed 110 procedures during the three months period. The private hospitals implementing the WHO surgical safety checklist more than government hospitals 87.10% vs 79.39%. (Sign out) part of the checklist was the most applied 86.75% followed by (sign in) and (Time out) 86.37%, 81.08% respectively. The overall application of the standards of the checklist in Mukalla hospitals was 81.77%.

Conclusion: The surgical safety checklist of WHO was partial applied in our hospitals. The checklist is a simple tool, which can downloaded freely from the WHO. Adaptation of the checklist to suit local conditions is encouraged.

Keywords: Surgical Safety Checklist; Mukalla Hospitals

Copyright: © 2018 Nawal Saeed Banafa., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.