Incident monitoring

Anaesthesia Incident Monitoring Study

The "critical incident technique" was described by Flanagan in 19541, when it was used to reduce loss of military pilots and aircraft during training. Jeffry Cooper in 1978 introduced it into anaesthesia as a method to study errors during administration of anaesthesia2 • He defined a critical incident as an occurrence that could have led (if not discovered or corrected in time) or did lead to a...

Critical incident monitoring in anaesthesia.

Critical incident monitoring in anaesthesia is an important tool for quality improvement and maintenance of high safety standards in anaesthetic services. It is now widely accepted as a useful quality improvement technique for reducing morbidity and mortality in anaesthesia and has become part of the many quality assurance programmes of many general hospitals under the Ministry of Health. Despi...

Critical Incident Monitoring in a Teaching Hospital

Several factors have been incriminated in the etiologies of critical incidents: shortages in organizing rules, anesthesia technique, patient environment, human factor, team work and communication. This is the third follow up report describing our performance during the last five years (2003-2008). The possible incriminating causes were identified with the objective of avoiding such eventualitie...

Monitoring of Incident Response Management Performance

Monitoring the performance of incident response (IR) management is important input for improving the IR management system. A set of performance indicators, which assists monitoring in a proper way, is described regarding: the incident response management system; information security culture; number of incidents responded to; average time spent on responding; consequences of incidents; number of...

Monitoring junior doctors after a major incident.