Dr Jennifer Reynolds, Dr Sushil Pal, Dr Helen McNamara - Liverpool Women’s Hospital

According to NatSSIPs2 guidelines¹ and the WHO surgical checklist, a team brief/safety huddle is required for all theatre cases. At our centre, the safety huddle was performed routinely for all elective but not emergency obstetric cases. We felt the team brief was the ideal opportunity to discuss patient safety, logistical and holistic care concerns for the emergency patient and should be implemented.