Postoperative handoff
Educational use only. Not clinically reviewed64-year-old woman for Open right hemicolectomy. About 7 simulated minutes.
What you will practise
- Confirm the receiver and monitoring are ready before beginning.
- Share the patient, perioperative course, and current state as distinct critical content.
- Name unresolved risks, required actions, timing, ownership, and escalation.
- Require receiver synthesis and acknowledged acceptance before responsibility changes.
Review and sources
Not clinically reviewed. No clinician has signed this scenario.
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. TeamSTEPPS 3.0 Communication Module: Handoff and I-PASS. Current web curriculum.
- The Joint Commission. Sentinel Event Alert 58: Inadequate hand-off communication. September 11, 2017.
Open Sim Lab is an educational simulator, not for clinical use. It is not a clinical decision-support tool, not a dosing calculator, and is not validated for any decision affecting a real patient.