title: Safety in anesthesia.
abstract: The specialty of anesthesiology has made extraordinary advances in anesthesia safety. Yet, anesthetic mortality and morbidity continue to be far from tolerable. Efforts to enhance safety in anesthesia must include adherence to explicit and implicit safety standards, must make use of equipment that offers modern safety features, must seek to detect and correct developing safety threats as early as possible and must have a structured system to analyze problems and to institute remedies to prevent their recurrence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida, USA. jgravens@anest2.ufl.edu
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Gravenstein
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000401:mortality; D003422:Critical Care; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012449:Safety; D016896:Treatment Outcome