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The non-technical skills used by anaesthetic technicians in critical incidents reported to the Australian Incident Monitoring System between 2002 and 2008.
September 9, 2015
Rutherford JS, Flin R, Irwin A. Anaesth Intensive Care. 2015;43(4):512-7.
This review of operating room incident reports found that anesthetic technicians' situational awareness, teamwork, and task management affected adverse events. The presence of these skills played a role in ameliorating these events, while lack of these skills exacerbated incidents, emphasizing their importance across roles and settings.
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