High stakes and high risk: A focused qualitative review of hazards during cardiac surgery

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1061-1074

  Martinez, Elizabeth A ^a,d   Thompson, David A ^b   Errett, Nicole A ^c   Kim, George R ^b   Bauer, Laura ^a   Lubomski, Lisa H ^a   Gurses, Ayse P ^a,b   Marsteller, Jill A ^b   Mohit, Babak ^b   Goeschel, Christine A ^a,b   Pronovost, Peter J ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d Department of Anesthesia Critical Care and Pain Medicine GRB 444   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEALTH HAZARD; HEART SURGERY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ODYNOPHAGIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SURGICAL RISK; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MEDICAL ERROR; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; MEDICAL ERRORS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955474996     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e31820bfe8e     Document Type: Review

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