INTRODUCTION
blood loss, bleeding
BLEEDING, BLOOD LOSS, POSTOPERATIVE BLEEDING, SECONDARY, COMPLICATIONS
Checklists have gained importance in healthcare, being currently widely used in the
surgical field to standardize complex processes and reduce the risk of errors. Thus,
the use of a checklist in hemostasis procedures is presented as a simple, quick, and
easy-to-use tool to prevent complications, yielding a better clinical outcome for
patientsPostoperative bleeding is one of the main potentially modifiable complications in
cardiovascular surgeriesTo reduce these modifiable factors, researchers in the United Kingdom developed a
multidisciplinary intraoperative checklist, known as the Papworth Haemostasis
Checklist. Its assessment is based on two major sections: operative sites and
coagulation status. When comparing variables before and after the implementation of
this checklist, there was a significant reduction in mediastinal blood loss, rate of
return to operating room for hemostasis, and use of blood products. As a secondary
outcome, a significant reduction in hospital costs was observedNowadays, there are not similar checklists aiming to mitigate postoperative bleeding
in Brazil, which leads to a mortality rate of 5.6%, that exceeds the global rate of
3%