New OR Checklist Tool Kit Combats ‘Print and Pluck’ Practices

By Michael Vlessides

Boston—First introduced to the medical community in 2012, the Ariadne Labs Operating Room Crisis Checklists have been shown to provide a significant boost to the completeness of clinician response to operating room (OR) critical events. Yet success depends on comprehensive implementation.

Now, however, a collaboration between Ariadne and Stanford School of Medicine has resulted in the OR Emergency Checklist Implementation Toolkit (ImplementingEmergencyChecklists.org),