Practice advisory for the prevention and management of operating room fires: An updated report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Operating room fires

Anesthesiology

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 271-290

  Apfelbaum, Jeffrey L ^a   Caplan, Robert A ^a   Connis, Richard T ^a   Ehrenwerth, Jan ^a   Nickinovich, David G ^a   Pritchard, Donna ^a   Roberson, David W ^a   Barker, Steven J ^a   Cowles, Charles ^a   De Richemond, Albert L ^a   Wolf, Gerald L ^a  

^a Task Force on Operating Room Fires ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUEL; METHYLENE BLUE; NITROUS OXIDE; OXIDE;

ADVISORY COMMITTEE; AMBIENT AIR; ANESTHESIST; ARGON LASER; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BREATHING CIRCUIT; BRONCHOSCOPY; BURN; CAUTERIZATION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DEATH; DEFORMITY; EYE SURGERY; FIBER OPTICS; FIRE PROTECTION; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; LARYNX PAPILLOMATOSIS; LASER; LASER SURGERY; LUNG BURN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); OPERATING ROOM; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPIRATION CONTROL; SEDATION; SIMULATION; STAFF TRAINING; SURGICAL DRAPE; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; THERMAL INJURY; TONSILLECTOMY; TRACHEOSTOMY;

ANESTHETICS; CONSENSUS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FIRES; HUMANS; OPERATING ROOMS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SAFETY;

EID: 84872848591     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e31827773d2     Document Type: Article

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