Beyond miracles and heroes: time for an anaesthesia checklist mandate

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¹ Department of Anaesthesia, CHU de Charleroi, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
² Department of Anaesthesia and Peri-operative Care, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Centre, University of California San Francisco, CA, USA.
³ Department of Anaesthesiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

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S Saxena et al. Anaesthesia. 2022 Jul.

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. 2022 Jul;77(7):735-738.

doi: 10.1111/anae.15724. Epub 2022 Mar 28.

¹ Department of Anaesthesia, CHU de Charleroi, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
² Department of Anaesthesia and Peri-operative Care, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Centre, University of California San Francisco, CA, USA.
³ Department of Anaesthesiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

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Keywords: airway; checklist; errors; human factors.

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