Accidentally falling instruments during orthopaedic surgery: Time to wake up!

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 794-795

  Khan, Shah A ^a   Kumar, Ashok ^a   Varshney, Manish K ^a   Trikha, Vivek ^a   Yadav, Chandershekar ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Accidental; Fall; Instrument; Operating theatre

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FALLING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; SURGEON; SURGICAL ERROR; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; HUMANS; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 50249108444     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: 14452197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2008.04652.x     Document Type: Article

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