Critical incident monitoring in anaesthesia.

Choy Yin Choy

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Critical incident monitoring in anaesthesia.

May 21, 2008

Choy CY. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2008;21(2):183-6.

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This article discusses how critical incident monitoring is used to analyze errors in anesthesia and summarizes several initiatives that use this investigation method.

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