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Surgical briefing poster
A five-minute team briefing before starting the day’s surgical list reduces patient harm. This poster outlines the steps required for a start-of-list briefing.
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Video: Surgical briefing and debriefings
This video from the Commission's Reducing Perioperative Harm programme demonstrates best practice for briefing and debriefing sessions, based on the World Health Organization's surgical safety checklist.
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Surgical checklist video: sign in
This video outlines step one of the World Health Organization's surgical safety checklist – sign in.
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Surgical Site Infection Improvement Programme information sheet
The Surgical Site Infection Improvement (SSII) programme was established to encourage culture change and practice improvements that better support the prevention of SSIs.
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Video: Antibiotic Intervention
The video below outlines the Surgical Site Infection Improvement Programme's guidelines for the appropriate use of surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis – the first in a series of interventions.
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SSI webinar 3: Surgical antibiotic prophylaxis
This recording of webinar 3: surgical antibiotic prophylaxis is a fantastic opportunity to learn from three surgical site infection experts about surgical antibiotic prophylaxis.
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Video: Surgical site infection improvement programme
This brief video clip gives an overview of the surgical site infection improvement programme, and some background to the issue of surgical site infections in New Zealand.
- Safer surgery journal articles (long and short versions, updated August 2021)
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Surgical Site Infection Improvement Programme frequently asked questions
The Surgical Site Infection Improvement Programme's frequently asked questions covers general programme queries, questions about data collection, and technical queries. The page is updated on a regular basis to incorporate new questions.
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SSI webinar 1: Case for change
Presentations from the first SSI webinar - the case for change.