Crisis management during anaesthesia: recovering from a crisis
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Crisis management during anaesthesia: recovering from a crisis.
Preventing harm to the patient is the priority during a crisis. After a major incident, and especially when a patient has been harmed, there are a number of matters to be addressed: the ongoing care of the patient; documentation of the incident; investigation of the root causes; completion of reports; interviews with the patient and/or the next of kin, together with apologies and expression of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Quality and Safety in Health Care
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1475-3898,1475-3901
DOI: 10.1136/qshc.2002.004333