The Intensive Care Society and Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine have revised the procedural checklists, Local Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures (LocSSIPs) and the 2025 versions can be found here.
First produced in 2017, the updates take into account learning from reported patient safety incidents, some of which have been associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. The publication of NatSIPs 2 has been acknowledged during the update.
These checlists focus on procedures which are commonly performed in Critical Care Units:
- bronchoscopy
- central venous catheter insertion
- intercostal chest drain insertion
- intubation
- tracheostomy insertion.
The checklists have been designed to enable departments to use and adapt to make them unit specific. They will require relevant educational and clinical governance procedures to accompany them, to fit into local working practices.
Contributions and suggestions for other checklists are welcome and should be emailed to guidelines@ics.ac.uk.
