Anesthesia dogmas and shibboleths: Barriers to patient safety?

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 694-699

  Gordon, Ronald J ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALFENTANIL; ANESTHETIC AGENT; CARBON DIOXIDE; FENTANYL; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; OXYGEN; REMIFENTANIL;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; ARTICLE; CAPNOGRAPHY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COLON RESECTION; CONSENSUS; ECHOGRAPHY; END TIDAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GYNECOLOGIC NURSING; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MORBIDITY; NAUSEA; PAIN; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN; POSTANESTHESIA CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; RECOVERY ROOM; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RESIDENT; RESPIRATION CONTROL; SURGEON; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES; UROLOGICAL PROCEDURES;

ANESTHESIA; HUMANS; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84857539614     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3182455b86     Document Type: Article

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