Incidents relating to arterial cannulation as identified in 7525 reports submitted to the Australian Incident Monitoring Study (AIMS-ICU)

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 60-65

  Durie, M ^a   Beckmann, U ^a   Gillies, D M ^a  

^a JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adverse effects: Arterial line; Arterial cannulae; Critical care; Incident monitoring; Intensive care: Patient safety; Quality assurance; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CATHETER INFECTION; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ERROR; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE; ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONITORING; PATIENT CARE; SAFETY; STAFF TRAINING;

EID: 0036174580     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x0203000111     Document Type: Article

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