Assessment of the Availability of the Anaesthesia Safety Checklist and the Compliance of the Anaesthesia Residents to use This Checklist

Background: Safety checklists help prevent human errors in complex, high-intensity working environments. Using perioperative checklists was shown to reduce mortality and complication rates, improve communication and perception of safety in human hospital anesthesia teams, and reduce the incidence and severity of complications in veterinary settings. The checklist employs tactics to improve efficiency in the operating theatre and inculcates teamwork and good communication among the operational staff, all working together to make the surgical environment safe for the patient. Aim of The Study: To determine the availability of the safety checklist and the compliance of the anaesthesia resident to use this checklist. Patients and Methods: A simple random sampling technique was used to select 100 anaesthesia residents working at Baghdad Teaching Hospital and Ghazy Al Hariri Hospital for Surgical Specialities, where general or spinal anaesthesia surgeries were done. Results: Preoperative assessment compliance score was 79.63%. The anaesthesia machine checklist compliance score was 30.56%. The ventilator function checklist compliance score was 13.89%. The equipment checklist compliance score was 83.33%. Conclusions: The overall compliance score could have been better. Plus, there was a difference in the compliance score between the different parts of the questionnaire.