Response to the letter to editor: Re-exploration after off pump coronary
artery bypass grafting: incidence, risk factors and impact of timing:
Utility of heaemostasis checklist
Abstract
Surgical checklists such as ‘World Health Organization (WHO) Surgical
Safety Checklist’ are made to make surgery safer, simple and to reduce
human errors. Similar to this concept, Ali M et al and others have
implemented the ‘haemostasis checklist’ and it had shown reduction in
incidence of re-exploration in patients who underwent surgery using
cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). However, there is still scarcity of
literature about the effect of these checklists on re-exploration after
off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCABG).