The Safety of Target-Controlled Infusions

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 79-85

  Schnider, Thomas W ^a,b   Minto, Charles F ^c   Struys, Michel M R F ^d,e   Absalom, Anthony R ^d  

^a CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Hunters Hill Hospital   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHETIC AGENT;

DEVICE SAFETY; HUMAN; INFUSION RATE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICATION ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; TARGET CONTROLLED INFUSION PUMP; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONSCIOUSNESS; DEVICE FAILURE; DEVICES; DOSE CALCULATION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MASS COMMUNICATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RISK FACTOR;

ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; CONSCIOUSNESS; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; DRUG DOSAGE CALCULATIONS; DRUG MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MEDICATION ERRORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PATIENT SAFETY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84950329075     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000001005     Document Type: Review

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