Surgical Safety Checklist Reduces Personal Injuries That Occur During Operations

Worldwide, an estimated 234 million operations are performed yearly including tens of thousands in Virginia (VA), North Carolina (NC), South Carolina (SC) and West Virginia (WV). Due to the high frequency of operations, millions of personal injuries are sustained by patients who are the victims of negligence, carelessness and medical malpractice.

The use surgical safety checklists was found to reduce the rate of hospital deaths associated with surgery from one 1.5% to .08%. Likewise, injuries sustained by patients as a result of botched operations was 11% before implementation of the checklist. The use of the checklist reduced that rate to 7%.

Experienced medical malpractice and personal injury attorneys/lawyers protecting the rights of injured patients around the world have directly resulted in the medical community devising new and creative ways to avoid inflicting personal injuries on their patients during hospital operations.

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