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NOVEMBER 4, 2017

The Right Systems, Not ‘The Right Stuff,’ Can Reduce Anesthesia Errors

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Eliot Grigg, MD

Austin, Texas—Incorporating design principles into the anesthesiology workspace is crucial to reducing medication administration errors, according to investigators at Seattle Children’s Hospital and the University of Washington, in Seattle.

Eliot Grigg, MD, assistant professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine at the University of Washington and director of sedation at Seattle Children’s Hospital, likened current thinking about anesthesia delivery to the idea