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Critical incidents related to cardiac arrests reported to the Danish Patient Safety Database.

Andersen PO, Maaløe R, Andersen HB. Critical incidents related to cardiac arrests reported to the Danish Patient Safety Database. Resuscitation. 2010;81(3):312-316. doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.10.018.

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April 7, 2010
Andersen PO, Maaløe R, Andersen HB. Resuscitation. 2010;81(3):312-316.
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Analysis of incident reports revealed common types of errors in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and identified areas for education and further training. Errors were categorized into seven areas: alerting the resuscitation team, human performance, equipment failure, resuscitation equipment not available, physical environment, insufficient monitoring, and medication error. 

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Andersen PO, Maaløe R, Andersen HB. Critical incidents related to cardiac arrests reported to the Danish Patient Safety Database. Resuscitation. 2010;81(3):312-316. doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.10.018.

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