Abstract
Surgery involves risks that are due in part to anesthesia. In many cases the dominant risk comes from the patient’s underlying diseases, which cannot always be fully controlled before surgery. In some cases the surgery itself is extremely risky. Yet, over the last 15 years, the anesthesia profession has come to realize that a substantial portion of the risk of surgery that can be attributed to anesthesia sterns from inadequate performance by the anesthesiologist (Cooper et al. 1978, 1984; Gaba 1989; Gaba et al. 1987). Anesthesiologists have been at the forefront of coming to grips with the effects of the physician’s human limitations on patient safety. Clearly, similar considerations also pertain to other dynamic medical fields such as intensive care medicine, emergency medicine, invasive cardiology, and surgery itself.
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Gaba, D.M. (1992). Dynamic Decision-Making in Anesthesiology: Cognitive Models and Training Approaches. In: Evans, D.A., Patel, V.L. (eds) Advanced Models of Cognition for Medical Training and Practice. NATO ASI Series, vol 97. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02833-9_7
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