Situation awareness errors in anesthesia and critical care in 200 cases of a critical incident reporting system. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Situation awareness errors in anesthesia and critical care in 200 cases of a critical incident reporting system. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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• Published January 2016

Situation awareness errors in anesthesia and critical care in 200 cases of a critical incident reporting system.

Schulz CM, Krautheim V, Hackemann A, Kreuzer M, Kochs EF, Wagner KJ. BMC Anesthesiol. 2016;16:4.

This retrospective review of anesthesia and critical care cases in the German incident reporting system found that errors in situational awareness contributed to 81.5% of events. This study includes detailed examples and analyses of these errors, providing useful insights into lapses in situational awareness.

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