Incidence and characteristics of errors detected by a short team briefing in pediatric anesthesia.

Oliver Keil; Katja Brunsmann; Dietmar Boethig; Nils Dennhardt; Hendrik Eismann; Stefan Girke; Alexander Horke; Katja Nickel; Vanessa Rigterink; Robert Sümpelmann; Christiane E Beck

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Incidence and characteristics of errors detected by a short team briefing in pediatric anesthesia.

August 24, 2022

Keil O, Brunsmann K, Boethig D, et al. Paediatr Anaesth. 2022;32(10):1144-1150.

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Harm from pediatric anesthesia-related errors is infrequent, but largely preventable. This pediatric hospital developed and implemented an anesthesia-specific checklist to be used before anesthesia induction. This study presents the types of errors identified by the checklist over the course of one year.

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