Vol. XIII, No. 4Archive > April, 2012

Anesthesia Alert

Helping Anesthetists Deal With Catastrophes

Timothy Martin, MD, MBA

Most anesthesia providers will at some point work a case that ends in serious patient injury or death. A recent study of more than 650 anesthesiologists found that nearly 85% of them had been involved in a surgical catastrophe. One in 5 of them said they never fully recovered from the event. Don't wait for a catastrophe to occur to figure out how to react.

 
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