Situation awareness in anesthesia: concept and research.

Predictors of situation awareness in student registered nurse anesthetists.

Situation awareness (SA) is defined as one's perception of the elements of the environment, the comprehension of their meaning, and the projection of their status in the near future. The concept of SA is well known in the aviation industry, which is characterized by complexity and dynamism. The discipline of anesthesia shares these same environmental characteristics, yet the study of SA in this...

Examining transfer of care processes in nurse anesthesia practice: introducing the PATIENT protocol.

Human factors, such as inadequate situation awareness, have been associated with preventable accidents in anesthesia practice. Integral to developing situation awareness in the operating room environment is the safe and efficient exchange of essential information when the care of a patient is transferred from one anesthesia provider to another for circumstances such as breaks, meals, and the en...

Relationship between knowledge toward anesthesia and Fear of anesthesia in the patients and their Companions in Teaching Hospitals of Golestan University of Medical Sciences , 2017

Introduction: Surgery and anesthesia are the common practice for anesthetist on the one hand and very worrying for the patient and his family on the other. This fear can have potentially dangerous consequences. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between the awareness and fear of patients and their companions towards anesthesia. Methods: The present study employed a descrip...

What about Memory, Consciousness, Recall, and Awareness in Anesthesia?

Clinical pharmacology on display.

Monitoring of fundamental physiological variables during anaesthesia is considered essential, but as we develop the ability to monitor more functions, information overload may become a problem. A distributed situation awareness framework is what we need to perceive elements in the environment (detection), comprehend the current situation (diagnosis), and make projections of future status (predi...