Errors in veterinary anesthesia / John W. Ludders, Matt McMillan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ludders, John W., author.

McMillan, Matt, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Veterinary anesthesia.

Medical errors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ames, Iowa ; Chichester, [England] ; Oxford, [England] : Wiley Blackwell, 2017.

Summary:

Errors in Veterinary Anesthesia is the first book to offer a candid examination of what can go wrong when anesthetizing veterinary patients and to discuss how we can learn from mistakes. * Discusses the origins of errors and how to learn from mistakes * Covers common mistakes in veterinary anesthesia * Provides strategies for avoiding errors in anesthetizing small and large animal patients * Offers tips and tricks to implement in clinical practice * Presents actual case studies discussing errors in veterinary anesthesia

Contents:

Title Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; References; CHAPTER 1: Errors: Terminology and Background; Error: terminology; Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 2: Errors: Organizations, Individuals, and Unsafe Acts; Error causation: technical factors; Error causation: organizational and supervision factors; Error causation: environmental factors; Error causation: personnel factors; Error causation: human factors; Error causation: other factors; Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 3: Reporting and Analyzing Patient Safety Incidents; The limitation in only counting errors

How can we learn the most from our errors?Analyzing patient safety incidents; Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 4: Equipment and Technical Errors in Veterinary Anesthesia; Cases; Near miss vignettes; Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 5: Medication Errors in Veterinary Anesthesia; Cases; Near miss vignettes; Conclusions; References; CHAPTER 6: Errors of Clinical Reasoning and Decision-making in Veterinary Anesthesia; Cases; Near miss vignettes; Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 7: Errors of Communication and Teamwork in Veterinary Anesthesia; Cases; Near miss vignette; Conclusion; References

CHAPTER 8: Error Prevention in Veterinary AnesthesiaGeneral strategies for error prevention; Specific strategies for error prevention; Conclusion; References; APPENDIX A: Suggested Readings; APPENDIX B: Terminology; Primary terms; Secondary terms; APPENDIX C: ACVAA Monitoring Guidelines; Position Statement (updated 2009); APPENDIX D: ACVAA Guidelines for Anesthesia in Horses1; APPENDIX E: A Brief History of Checklists; APPENDIX F: FDA Anesthesia Apparatus Checkout1; APPENDIX G: Association of Veterinary Anaesthetists Anaesthetic Safety Checklist

APPENDIX H: Critical clinical condition checklistsIndex; End User License Agreement

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781119259732

1119259738

9781119259725

111925972X

9781119259749

1119259746

OCLC:

960164247