The Impact of Surgical Safety Checklists on Postoperative Outcomes in Small AnimalReferral Surgeryand the Development of a PerianestheticSurgical Checklist for use in Small Animal Surgery.

Abstract

Summary: This thesis was concerned with examining the literature written on the subjectof surgical safety checklists with the express purpose of discovering their efficacy with an aim to creating a new and novel surgical safety checklist for use in small animal referral surgery.