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Accidents and mishaps in anesthesia: how they occur; how to prevent them
1Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, 55 Fruit Street, CLN 250, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Minerva Anestesiologica
|May 29, 2001
Abstract:
The problem of safety and accidents prevention is a primary issue in modern anesthesia. Throughout the last twenty years, much effort has been made to assess the causes of mishaps, introducing new technology and safer drugs. The author presents a well known model to describe factors affecting accidents causality, proposing old and new strategies to ensure safety during the everyday practice.