From Aviation to Pediatric Surgery.
Javier Arredondo MonteroCarlos Bardají PascualPublished in: Clinical pediatrics (2023)
Aviation is a tremendously complex process involving multiple factors that can be subsidiary to human error. The implementation of checklists, tools that reduce this risk, has often been extrapolated to other fields, especially medicine. Through this reflection, we comment on the critical and relevant aspects of pediatric surgical patient safety, briefly discussing the existing literature and analyzing potential areas for improvement.