Implementing human factors in anaesthesia: guidance for clinicians, departments and hospitals: Guidelines from the Difficult Airway Society and the Association of Anaesthetists.

F. E Kelly; C. Frerk; C. R Bailey; T. M Cook; K. Ferguson; R. Flin; K. Fong; P. Groom; C. John; A. R Lang; T. Meek; K. L Miller; L. Richmond; N. Sevdalis; M. R Stacey

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Implementing human factors in anaesthesia: guidance for clinicians, departments and hospitals: Guidelines from the Difficult Airway Society and the Association of Anaesthetists.

March 1, 2023

Kelly FE, Frerk C, Bailey CR, et al. Anaesthesia. 2023;78(4):458-478.

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Human factors engineering has the potential to mitigate failures by designing workspaces and processes to prevent errors from occurring. This guidance uses the hierarchy of controls framework to organize human-factors recommendations focusing on the design of anesthesia environments and equipment to infuse protections into care service.

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