The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right AudiobooK
Mac-n Audio | 2009 | ASIN: B0031Q9ZWY | MP3@128 kbps | 6 hrs 10 mins | 337.97 Mb

Welive in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the mostexpert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longertraining, ever more advanced technologies - neither seems to preventgrievous errors. But in a hopeful turn, acclaimed surgeon and writerAtul Gawande finds a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques:the checklist. First introduced decades ago by the U.S. Air Force,checklists have enabled pilots to fly aircraft of mind-bogglingsophistication. Now innovative checklists are being adopted in hospitalsaround the world, helping doctors and nurses respond to everything fromflu epidemics to avalanches. Even in the immensely complex world ofsurgery, a simple 90-second variant has cut the rate of fatalities bymore than a third.

In riveting stories, Gawande takes us fromAustria, where an emergency checklist saved a drowning victim who hadspent half an hour underwater, to Michigan, where a cleanlinesschecklist in intensive care units virtually eliminated a type of deadlyhospital infection. He explains how checklists actually work to promptstriking and immediate improvements. And he follows the checklistrevolution into fields well beyond medicine, from disaster response toinvestment banking, skyscraper construction, and businesses of allkinds.

An intellectual adventure in which lives are lost andsaved and one simple idea makes a tremendous difference, The ChecklistManifesto is essential for anyone working to get things right.

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