Preventable anesthesia mishaps: a study of human factors*
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Summary
A modified critical-incident analysis technique was used in a retrospective examination of the characteristics of human error and equipment failure in anesthetic practice to uncover patterns of frequently occurring incidents that are in need of careful prospective investigation.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 1978-12-01
- Cited by
- 749
- References
- 26
- Access
- Open access
- OpenAlex
- https://openalex.org/W1964773302
- Semantic Scholar
- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:20452570
Keywords
Medicine, Human error, Medical emergency, Incident report, Distraction
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- Research Paper: The Evaluation of a Pulmonary Display to Detect Adverse Respiratory Events Using High Resolution Human Simulator
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