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.