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Medication errors, critical incidents, adverse drug events, …

WEBLiterature focused on quantifying or reducing patient harm in anaesthesia uses a variety of labels and definitions to represent patient safety-related events, such …

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Improving perioperative brain health: an expert …

WEBDelirium and postoperative neurocognitive disorder are the commonest perioperative complications in patients more than 65 yr of age. However, data suggest …

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I. Best practice and patient safety in anaesthesia

WEBThe pursuit of patient safety involves reducing the gap between best practice and the care actually delivered to patients. Understanding how to reliably deliver best practice care …

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Surgery and opioids: evidence-based expert consensus …

WEBThere are significant concerns regarding prescription and misuse of prescription opioids in the perioperative period. The Faculty of Pain Medicine at the …

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Clinical effectiveness and safety of spinal anaesthesia …

WEBWe conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of contemporary RCTs to determine the clinical effectiveness of spinal vs general anaesthesia (SA vs GA) in patients …

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Patient monitoring, wearable devices, and the healthcare …

WEBConventional patient vital signs monitoring fails to detect many signs of patient deterioration, including those in the critical postoperative period. Wearable …

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Quality, safety, and outcomes in anaesthesia: what's to be …

WEBThis article reviews of some of the key topics and challenges in quality, safety, and the measurement and improvement of outcomes in anaesthesia. The topics were selected …

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Anaesthesia and COVID-19: infection control

WEBThe world is currently facing an unprecedented healthcare crisis caused by a pandemic novel beta coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 …

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The anaesthetists' role in perioperative infection control: …

WEBPatients were screened on or within the week before admission with a primary outcome of the cumulative incidence of hospital-associated S. aureus infections. …

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Doing more and doing better: improving racial and ethnic …

WEBEditor—We write in disappointment about the state of disparities research in anaesthesiology and its subspecialties. We share the findings of our recent literature …

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Impact of capnography on patient safety in high- and low …

WEBREVIEW ARTICLE Impact of capnography on patient safety in high- and low-income settings: a scoping review Elliot Wollner1,*, Maziar M. Nourian1,2, William Booth1, …

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Patient monitoring, wearable devices, and the healthcare …

WEBPatient monitoring, wearable devices, and the healthcare information ecosystem. Craig S. Webster1,*, Thomas W. L. Scheeren2 and Yize I. Wan3. 1Department of …

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Reconsidering the application of systems thinking in healthcare: …

WEBEditor—After being found guilty of criminally negligent homicide for a fatal medication accident, former Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) nurse RaDonda Vaught …

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Equality or utility

WEBIt is predicted that there will be a severe shortage of ventilators in coming weeks for the respiratory support of patients severely affected by coronavirus disease …

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Chronic pain: a review of its epidemiology and associated …

WEBWe present a narrative review of the current understanding of these factors. Keywords: chronic pain; epidemiology; genetics; incidence; prevalence; risk factors. …

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CArdiovaSCulAr outcomes after major abDominal surgEry: study …

WEBEditor—Postoperative cardiovascular complications range in severity from asymptomatic troponin rise to life-threatening complications, such as myocardial …

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Hand-hygiene practices in the operating theatre: an …

WEBResults. A total of 28 operations were observed (60 h of observations). On average, 0.14 hand-hygiene applications per hour per staff member were witnessed. Upon entering or …

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Associations between state policies, race, ethnicity and rurality, …

WEBEditor—We write in response to the U.S. Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling, which overturned Roe v. Wade, eliminating an …

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Environmental impacts of nitrous oxide: no laughing matter!

WEBThe recently published NHS long-term plan requires reducing the CO 2 e of inhaled anaesthetic practice by at least 210 000 tonnes (T) per annum in order to …

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