{
  "abstract": "Background and Aims It is generally established that using the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) improves operating room team coordination while decreasing perioperative complications and mortality. Although it is useful for adult surgeries, its awareness and use must be examined in setups where pediatric surgery is frequently performed. The WHO suggests that end users review and customise the checklist to promote safe operations. The surgical safety checklist is divided into three parts: sign-in, which is done before anaesthesia is administered; time-out, which is done before skin incision; and sign-out, which is done right after skin closure or before the patient departs the operating room.Methods In our newly developed centre, we faced issues while performing sign-in, as per the WHO checklist, every time the nursing officer asked ‘if the patient has confirmed his or her identity, site, procedure and consent’ in case of non-verbal children, the nursing officer presumed that this part is not applicable. We almost had a near-miss event where the wrong herniotomy patient was brought to the operating table as there were both male and female herniotomy cases of nearly the same age were posted on the same day. Following the event, we considered customising our institute’s surgical safety checklistResults Just after the query ‘Has patient confirmed his/her Identity, site, Procedure and consent’ ‘ we added a Query, ‘In case of Nonverbal patients, has identity been confirmed? In addition, we added the Hospital number, Name, age, gender, procedure name and signature columns for the surgeon, Anaesthetist and circulatory nurse for extra safety to avoid any miscommunication and mistakes. So, customization of the WHO checklist for pediatric surgical settings can add extra safety.Conclusions This modification of the WHO checklist improves patient safety and results in the pediatric population in perioperative period.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Pediatric Surgery, AIIMS Jammu, Jammu, India"
      ],
      "name": "Vijay Kumar Kundal"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "AIIMS Jammu, Jammu, J and K, India"
      ],
      "name": "Raksha Kundal"
    }
  ],
  "title": "P103 Customising the WHO checklist for peadiatric precision care",
  "uid": "0a69d66b-9f13-59ba-984f-9bc87d2d7a57"
}