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cord-005861-3k8h3euj	Gravenstein, J. S.	Safety in anesthesia	2014-03-17		.txt	text/plain	3660	213	50	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. The health care system in which these fatal and non-fatal errors occur covers a spectrum that stretches from the manufacturers of equipment and drugs to the cleaning crew in the operating room and it involves many different clinical and supportive departments and their personnel.Anesthesia is an important component of this health care system comprising many interdependent parts that can affect the quality of anesthesia care. The Institute of Medicine [5] includes in its definitions the terms "accidental injury" and, interestingly, makes reference to a process:"Ensuring patient safety involves the establishment of operational systems and processes that minimize the likelihood of errors and maximize the likelihood of intercepting them when they occur."	./cache/cord-005861-3k8h3euj.txt	./txt/cord-005861-3k8h3euj.txt