Checklist By The Patient Before Surgery
In every hospital, pre-surgery surgeons have a checklist to ensure that the instruments and other required things are available or not. This checklist is extremely important to prevent any miss-happening or shortage to save the patient’s life. This checklist is helpful in controlling the unexpected health condition of the patient during or post-surgery. The checklist is not also important for the surgeons it is also important for the patients. The surgeon’s checklist ensures that the required items for surgery are available or not and are in working condition or not. Such as surgical tools, surgical scrub station , OT Light, and more. But the patient’s checklist contains different questions such as: Requirement and type of surgery : This is a patient’s right to know that the surgery is important or not. If medication is enough to deal with disease then he or she may refuse the surgery also. The patient may ask several questions to the surgeon such as what type of surgery he is goi...