'Death on the table'

Anaesthesia

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 515-518

  White, Stuart M ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIST; ANXIETY DISORDER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPETENCE; CRISIS INTERVENTION; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DRUG OVERDOSE; EDITORIAL; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FATALITY; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; JOB PERFORMANCE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PEER REVIEW; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAFETY; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

ANESTHESIA; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0037866461     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.2003.03241.x     Document Type: Editorial

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