Ensuring patient safety: What lessons can be learned from device-related adverse events in hemodialysis?

Artificial Organs

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 305-306

  Ward, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EVENTS; HAEMODIALYSIS; PATIENT SAFETY;

FLUOROCARBON; WATER;

ACUTE TOXICITY; AIR EMBOLISM; ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CYTOTOXICITY; DEATH; DEVICE; EDITORIAL; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GAS EMBOLISM; GENOTOXICITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MISCIBILITY; NONHUMAN; PACKAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SAFETY; STANDARD; SYMPTOM; TEMPERATURE; TOXICITY TESTING;

EID: 0036233421     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1594.2002.00913.x     Document Type: Editorial

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