Human Factors of Flight-Deck Checklists: The Normal Checklist

Chapter 23. Pre-Anesthesia Checklists To Improve Patient Safety

No matter how rote the task or how vigilant the anesthesiologist, “slips” and other errors represent expected aspects of human performance. Evaluation and subsequent improvement of standard checkout procedures promises to increase patient safety in the perioperative period by removing more of the “human factors” so often implicated in anesthesia adverse events. The use of pre-flight checklists ...

Un-alerted Smoke and Fire: Checklist Content and Intended Crew Response

An in-flight smoke or fire event is an emergency unlike almost any other. The early cues for un-alerted conditions, such as air conditioning smoke or fire, are often ambiguous and elusive. The checklists crews use for these conditions must help them respond quickly and effectively and must guide their decisions. Ten years ago an industry committee developed a template to guide the content of Pa...

A feedback intervention to increase digital and paper checklist performance in technically advanced aircraft simulation.

This study examined whether pilots operating a flight simulator completed digital or paper flight checklists more accurately after receiving postflight graphic and verbal feedback. The dependent variable was the number of checklist items completed correctly per flight. Following treatment, checklist completion with paper and digital checklists increased from 38% and 39%, respectively, to nearly...

Developing checklists to prevent diagnostic error in Emergency Room settings.

BACKGROUND Checklists have been shown to improve performance of complex, error-prone processes. To develop a checklist with potential to reduce the likelihood of diagnostic error for patients presenting to the Emergency Room (ER) with undiagnosed conditions. METHODS Participants included 15 staff ER physicians working in two large academic centers. A rapid cycle design and evaluation process ...

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