Quality and Safety in Anesthesia and Perioperative Care

Quality and Safety in Anesthesia and Perioperative Care offers practical suggestions for improving quality of care and patient safety in the perioperative setting. Chapters are organized into sections on clinical foundations and practical applications, and emphasize strategies that support reform at all levels, from operating room practices to institutional procedures. Written by leading experts in their fields, chapters are based on accepted safety, human performance, and quality management science and they illustrate the benefits of collaboration between medical professionals and human factors experts. The book highlights concepts such as situation awareness, staff resource management, threat and error management, checklists, explicit practices for monitoring, and safety culture. Quality and Safety in Anesthesia and Perioperative Care is a must-have resource for those preparing for the quality and safety questions on the American Board of Anesthesiology certification examinations, as well as clinicians and trainees in all practice settings.Additional ISBNs0199366144, 0199366152, 9780199366149, 9780199366156Quality and Safety in Anesthesia and Perioperative Care 1st Edition is written by Keith J. Ruskin; Stanley H. Rosenbaum; Marjorie P. Stiegler and published by Oxford University Press. ISBNs for Quality and Safety in Anesthesia and Perioperative Care are 9780199366163, 0199366160 and the print ISBNs are 9780199366149, 0199366144. Additional ISBNs include 0199366144, 0199366152, 9780199366149, 9780199366156.