A Literature Supported Conceptual Framework to Develop an Operation Room Audio-Visual Electronic Assistant (ORAVEA) as a Tool for Performing Surgical Safety Checklist

World Health Organisation (WHO) reported that more than seven million surgical patients face debilitating complications and more than one million patients die due to their peri-operative adverse events (WHO, 2018). Weiser et al. (2016) estimated that a global volume of surgeries per year, with more than 234.2 million with majority (138.0 million) surgeries are performed globally in a year and 13% of these surgical procedures led their patients to disability-adjusted life years (DALY). WHO introduced “safe surgery saves lives” guidelines and called for implementation of WHO Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) in 2008 (WHO, 2018). Haynes et al. (2009) investigated the situation after the introduction of SSC, reported that the death rate from surgical procedures reduced from 1.5% to 0.8% and in hospital complications related to surgical procedures reduced from 11.0% to 7.0% after the implementation of SSC.