The checklist manifesto for mechanical circulatory support: Targeting anti-coagulation efficiency

In his book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, Atul Gawande describes the origins of the checklist that involved the airline industry beginnings of the B-17 airplane.1 The test plane ’s flight ended in a deadly crash deemed due to pilot error. The B-17 was felt to be too much plane for one pilot and was abandoned as the next generation long-range bomber for the U.S. military. A persistent group of pilots developed a checklist of tasks to be performed for each phase of flight t ake-off, inflight, and landing.
Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research