Sentences with phrase «anesthesia handover»

A national consensus statement describing the appropriate circumstances for anesthesia handovers to occur, that also incorporates best practices in communication, would be a helpful start to reduce the risks associated with these handovers,» concludes Dr. Jones.

The findings may support limiting complete anesthesia handovers or creating an improved system of anesthesia handovers.

Not exact matches

«Amongst anesthesia doctors, there has always been an assumption that handovers were «care neutral,» in that they would not harm patients as long as sufficient information was communicated between anesthesiologists,» continues Dr. Jones.

«Patient handovers occur for a variety of reasons, including illness or fatigue, to comply with working hour policies, or simply to balance an individual's work hours and personal commitments,» says Dr. Philip Jones, Lawson scientist, and associate professor, Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Medicine and Epidemiology & Biostatistics at Western University's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry.

The researchers compared patient outcomes in surgeries which did not experience a handover of anesthesia care with those where the primary anesthesiologist transferred care to a colleague and did not return to the operating room.

«Our study finds that our assumptions of «care neutrality» may be wrong and that, among adults undergoing major surgery, complete handover of intraoperative anesthesia care compared with no handover was associated with a higher risk of adverse postoperative outcomes.