The creation of a pediatric surgical checklist for adult providers.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To address the need for a pediatric surgical checklist for adult providers.

Background

Pediatric surgery is unique due to the specific needs and many tasks that are employed in the care of adults require accommodations for children. There are some resources for adult surgeons to perform safe pediatric surgery and to assist such surgeons in pediatric emergencies, we created a straightforward checklist based on current literature. We propose a surgical checklist as the value of surgical checklists has been validated through research in a variety of applications.

Methods

Literature review on PubMed to gather information on current resources for pediatric surgery, all papers on surgical checklists describing their outcomes as of October 2023 were included to preve

SUBMITTER: Rapolti DI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11375845 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature