Case Studies of Near Misses in Clinical Anesthesia

• Main Author: Brock-Utne, John G. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Anesthesiology.; Critical care medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.

All anesthesiologists eventually face the fear of a “near miss,” when a patient’s life has been put at risk. Learning from the experience is crucial to professionalism and the ongoing development of expertise. Drawing on forty-plus years of practice in major metropolitan hospitals in the United Stat...