{"id":403,"date":"2009-01-15T18:09:16","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T18:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=403"},"modified":"2009-01-15T19:25:04","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T19:25:04","slug":"checklists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=403","title":{"rendered":"Checklists"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was learning to fly, one of the first things I was taught was the use of checklists. Checklists contain trivial things that are supposedly self-evident. Stuff like this<\/a>, for the Cessna 172 that I used to fly:<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Aircraft position<\/td>\nINTO WIND<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brakes<\/td>\nAPPLY & HOLD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Doors<\/td>\nCLOSED & LATCHED<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Flight controls<\/td>\nFREE & CORRECT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fuel selector valve<\/td>\nBOTH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Elevator trim<\/td>\nTAKEOFF<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So who in his right mind would forget to close the doors, you might ask, or open a fuel valve? But the fact is, people do, and people died as a result. Pilots, gung-ho folks that they are, were nevertheless humble enough to realize this, and the use of checklists has been common practice pretty much since the dawn of flying.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for hospital operating rooms. It seems that surgical death rates can be cut by up to one third<\/a> through the simple use of a checklist… so why hasn’t this been done before? Is it ignorance, arrogance by the medical community, or a combination of both?<\/p>\n

In any case, introducing checklists in operating rooms is a no-cost improvement that can save billions of dollars a year not to mention a number of lives.<\/p>\n<\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was learning to fly, one of the first things I was taught was the use of checklists. Checklists contain trivial things that are supposedly self-evident. Stuff like this, for the Cessna 172 that I used to fly: Aircraft position INTO WIND Brakes APPLY & HOLD Doors CLOSED & LATCHED Flight controls FREE & […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-29-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}