Staff should introduce themselves with their title, name, and role and have badges clearly detailing this to avoid confusion and misdirection, writes Tim Cook The “Hello, my name is” campaign, set up...

Staff should introduce themselves with their title, name, and role and have badges clearly detailing this to avoid confusion and misdirection, writes Tim Cook The “Hello, my name is” campaign, set up...

Editor—We congratulate Lyne and colleagues1 on their initiative to explore and improve consent around perioperative mortality in children. Providing such data for families and clinicians is a key purp...

Court gives us the go-ahead

We are less than four months away from the final hearing in our fight against the GMC’s failure to set proper standards for Physician Associates (PAs) and Anaesthesia Associates (AAs) to treat patient...

Everyone is different; it is impossible to know who will have a side effect or risk. These numbers are averages from research studies. The people in the studies usually had routine surgery, were a hea...

Across multiple disciplines undertaking airway management globally, preventable episodes of unrecognised oesophageal intubation result in profound hypoxaemia, brain injury and death. These events occ....

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Across multiple disciplines undertaking airway management globally, preventable episodes of unrecognised oesophageal intubation result in profound hypoxaemia, brain injury and death. These events occ....

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Human factors is an evidence-based scientific discipline used in safety critical industries to improve safety and worker well-being. The implementation of human factors strategies in anaesthesia has ...

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