Anaesthetics
We publish case reports as an aid to MPS members, to alert them to pitfalls that have caught their colleagues unawares. We believe that these are an invaluable risk-management tool and, as such, they should be rooted in fact – i.e. based on actual events.
Here are some anaesthetic cases published in recent editions of Casebook.
- Don't blame it on the bougie - May 2008
- We don't talk anymore - May 2008
- Tracheostomy troubles - May 2008
- A sticky situation - January 2008
- A problem with the system, not the patient - January 2007
- Healthy advice or harassment? - September 2006
- Respiratory depression from postoperative analgesia - September 2006
- Consent is a conversation - February 2006
- Brachial plexus injury - February 2006
- Secondary hypertension - May 2005
- An aspiration to gain compensation - May 2005
- An anaesthetist's nightmare - February 2005
- Omitted thromboprophylaxis - August 2004
- Spinal cord infarction - August 2004
- Epidural emergency - August 2004