Influence of latent risk factors on job satisfaction, job stress and intention to leave in anaesthesia teams: a cross-sectional survey.

Context: Current thinking about patient safety emphasises the causal relationship between working conditions, referred to as latent risk factors (LRFs), and the quality of clinical care.

Objective: To investigate the extent to which LRFs are related to job satisfaction, job stress and intention to leave for specialist anaesthetists, trainee anaesthetists and nurse anaesthetists. We expected the different members of the anaesthesia team to show differing perceptions of LRFs, and differences in predictive LRFs for well-being.

Patient safety in the operating room: an intervention study on latent risk factors.

Background: Patient safety is one of the greatest challenges in healthcare. In the operating room errors are frequent and often consequential. This article describes an approach to a successful implementation of a patient safety program in the operating room, focussing on latent risk factors that influence patient safety.

Acetazolamide improves cerebral oxygenation during exercise at high altitude.

Vuyk, Jaap, Jan Van Den Bos, Kees Terhell, Rene De Bos, Ad Vletter, Pierre Valk, Martie Van Beuzekom, Jack Van Kleef, and Albert Dahan. Acetazolamide improves cerebral oxygenation during exercise at high altitude. High Alt.

A comparison of US, UK, and Dutch perioperative staffing practices.

American nurses developed the profession of the perioperative RN. Lasting personnel shortages led to the creation of the position of surgical technologist, however, and the necessity of having an RN in the OR has been under scrutiny in the United States and United Kingdom. The Netherlands had a different historical development of perioperative professions, resulting in ORs largely staffed by technicians.