Lake Wobegon for anesthesia...Where everyone is above average except those who aren't: Variability in the management of simulated intraoperative critical incidents

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 6-9

  McIntosh, Catherine A ^a,b  

^a Hunter New England Skills and Simulation Centre   (Australia)

^b JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; CRITICAL INCIDENTS METHOD; EDITORIAL; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SIMULATION; ANESTHESIOLOGY; CERTIFICATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MANPOWER; NOTE; NURSE ANESTHETIST; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEACHING;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; CERTIFICATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRITICAL CARE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; NURSE ANESTHETISTS; PATIENT SIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 58749111465     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31818e5f91     Document Type: Editorial

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