Rhona Flin,Rona Patey
Rhona Flin
This article examines the non-technical skills approach to enhancing operational safety, with particular reference to anaesthesia. Training and assessing the non-technical skills of staff in safety-critical occupations is accepted by high-r...
Sven Staender
Sven Staender
Incident reporting can be a powerful tool to detect weaknesses in the complex system of anaesthesiology. Having its roots in aviation, incident reporting today is used in a variety of medical disciplines at the local and even on the nationa...
Human performance limitations (communication, stress, prospective memory and fatigue) [0.03%]
人的性能局限性（交流、压力、预期待遇和疲劳）
Ronnie J Glavin
Ronnie J Glavin
A key role in anaesthetic practice is gathering and assimilating information from a variety of sources to construct and maintain an accurate mental model of what is happening to the patient, a model that will influence subsequent decisions ...
Effective handover communication: an overview of research and improvement efforts [0.03%]
有效的交接班沟通：研究和改进工作的概述
Tanja Manser,Simon Foster
Tanja Manser
In the recent patient safety literature, there is an increasing agreement that effective patient handover is critical to patient safety by ensuring appropriate coordination among health-care providers and continuity of care. It has repeated...
Managing the aftermath of critical incidents: meeting the needs of health-care providers and patients [0.03%]
重大事件后的应对：满足医护人员和患者的需求
Tanja Manser
Tanja Manser
Critical incidents may have serious psychological and health-related impact on patients, their families and the health-care providers involved. Exploring the needs of health-care providers and patients and their families in the aftermath of...
Ravi P Mahajan
Ravi P Mahajan
Following the overwhelming evidence of adverse events in hospital practice, the World Health Organization (WHO)'s World Alliance for Patient Safety has launched the 'Safe Surgery Saves Lives' campaign, which has developed a surgical safety ...
The contribution of labelling to safe medication administration in anaesthetic practice [0.03%]
标签对麻醉实践中安全用药的贡献
Alan F Merry,Diana H Shipp,Jocelyn S Lowinger
Alan F Merry
The administration of medications is central to anaesthetists' care of patients. Errors are inevitable in any human endeavour, but should be distinguished from violations. The incidence of medication errors in anaesthesia has been estimated...
Kathleen M Sutcliffe
Kathleen M Sutcliffe
Academic and professional disciplines, such as organisation and management theory, psychology, sociology and engineering, have, for years, grappled with the multidisciplinary issues of safety and accident prevention. However, these ideas ar...
Guy Haller,Thierry Laroche,François Clergue
Guy Haller
Based on results recorded of perioperative mortality, anaesthetic care is often cited as a model for its improvements with regard to patient safety. However, anaesthesia-related morbidity represents a major burden for patients as yet in spi...
How do we know that we are doing a good job - can we measure the quality of our work? [0.03%]
我们如何知道自己干得不错？工作质量可以衡量吗？
Sven Erik Gisvold,Sigurd Fasting
Sven Erik Gisvold
There is an increasing demand for systems for measuring the quality of our medical work. In this article, we present a suggestion for how one can attempt to do this in a department of anaesthesia. It would be desirable to measure real clini...