Surgical safety checklist manual

This manual introduces surgical safety checklists and how they can used to improve patient safety within practice. Find out more about:

• How surgical safety checklists were developed
• Their use in veterinary medicine
• How to create and implement a surgical safety checklist
• Critical steps to cover in your checklist.

This manual also includes practical examples and templates from a wide variety of practices.

This document was published in March 2020.