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Tool / guidance23 October 2025

Surgical safety checklist example

Roundhouse Veterinary Hospital
This example of a surgical safety checklist was created by Roundhouse Veterinary Hospital.
Quality improvementSurgery and anaesthesia

Peripheral catheter care and phlebitis score checklist

PDF document (.pdf)

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Roundhouse Veterinary Hospital created this template for monitoring surgical safety. Usage of this checklist was then audited by Megan Orr, a member of the Roundhouse team, who found a 94% compliance with completing checklists. Megan’s audit was awarded Highly Commended in the 2024 RCVS Knowledge Awards.

You can find out more about how Roundhouse used this template by reading their case example.

This document was first published in September 2024.

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