Aeroplanes rarely crash nowadays, therefore they don't need pilots: Anaesthesia, anaesthetics and cataract surgery

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 451-452

  Guise, Philip ^a  

^a AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIA; ANXIETY; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; COST CONTROL; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SEDATION; STAFF TRAINING; SURGICAL PATIENT; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; HEALTH SURVEY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; OPHTHALMOLOGY; ORGANIZATION; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTS, AVIATION; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONGRESSES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS;

EID: 33644809037     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2005.01060.x     Document Type: Editorial

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