Quality and safety guidelines of postanesthesia care Working Party on Post Anaesthesia Care (approved by the European Board and Section of Anaesthesiology, Union Europeenne des Medecins Specialistes)

European Journal of Anaesthesiology

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 715-721

  Vimlati, Laszlo ^a   Gilsanz, Fernando ^b   Goldik, Zeev ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

^c CARMEL MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Audit; Postanesthesia care unit; Recovery; Safety and quality; Standards of care

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIST; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; POSTANESTHESIA CARE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL; RECOVERY ROOM; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RESPONSIBILITY; REVIEW; STANDARD; ANESTHESIOLOGY; ARTICLE; ETHICS; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; LEGAL ASPECT; METHODOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RISK MANAGEMENT;

ANESTHESIA RECOVERY PERIOD; ANESTHESIOLOGY; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 74049096306     PISSN: 02650215     EISSN: 13652346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EJA.0b013e32832bb68f     Document Type: Review

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