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The World Health Organization issued its first guidelines on Tuesday aimed at reducing complications and deaths from the rising numbers of operations now being performed. Many who read the checklist will react by wondering why hospitals and surgeons have not been doing this for years.<\/p>\n

The guidelines are a list of simple safety checks that the health organization said could halve the rate of surgical complications. The list is intended to improve anesthetic safety practices, avoid infections and improve communication among members of surgical teams.<\/p>\n

One guideline calls for all members of the masked surgical team to identify themselves and their roles and ask simple questions like, \u201cDoes everyone agree that this is Patient X, undergoing a hernia repair?\u201d<\/p>\n

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