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The 34th Rovenstine Lecture

References

Ellison C. Pierce, Jr., M.D., Associate Clinical Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Chairman Emeritus, Department of Anaesthesia, Deaconess Hospital, Boston, MA

1. Rovenstine EA. Profiles: anesthesiologist [in three parts]: I. The Cold and Drousy Humour. New Yorker Oct 25 1947:pp 36-40, 43-44.

2. Rovenstine EA. Profiles: anesthesiologist [in three parts]: II. Drugs, Medicines, and Notions. New Yorker Nov 1 1947:pp 33-36, 40-43.

3. Rovenstine EA. Profiles: anesthesiologist [in three parts]: III. The Patient is Doing Well. New Yorker Nov 8 1947:pp 38-40, 42, 44-49.

4. Volpitto PP, Vandam LD. The Genesis of Contemporary American Anesthesiology. Springfield, Ill: Charles C Thomas, 1982: pp 155-195.

5. Eckenhoff JE.Lunn JN., ed. Leadership: A determining factor in quality care, Quality of Care in Anesthetic Practice. London: Macmillan, 1984: pp 306-314.

6. Sykes WS. Preface, Essays on the First Hundred Years of Anaesthesia. London: William Clowes (Beccles) Limited, 1982: pp 5-18.

7. Beecher HK, Todd DP. A study of the deaths associated with anesthesia and surgery. Ann Surg 1954;140:2-34.

8. Abajian J Jr, Arrowood JG, Barrett RH, Dwyer CS, Eversole UH, Fine JH, Hand LV, Howrie WC Jr, Marcus PS, Martin SJ, Nicholson MJ, Saklad E, Saklad M, Sellman P, Smith RM, Woodbridge PD. Critique of "A study of deaths associated with anesthesia and surgery". Ann Surg 1955;142:138-141.

9. Dripps RD, Lamont A, Eckenhoff JE. The role of anesthesia in surgical mortality. JAMA 1961;178:261-266.

10. Phillips OC, Frazier TM, Graff TD, DeKornfeld TJ. The Baltimore anesthesia study committee. JAMA 1960;174:2015-2019.

11. Phillips OC, Capizzi LS.Peter Safar, ed. Anesthesia mortality, Public Health Aspects of Critical Care Medicine and Anesthesiology. Philadelphia, FA: Davis, 1974: pp 220-239.

12. Sykes WS. Thirty-seven little things which have all caused death. In: Essays on the First Hundred Years of Anaesthesia. London: William Clowes (Beccles) Limited, 1982: pp 1-23.

13. Goldstein A Jr, Keats AS. The risk of anesthesia. Anesthesiology 1970;33:130-143.

14. Keats AS. What do we know about anesthetic mortality?. Anesthesiology 1979;50:387-392.

15. Keats AS. Anesthesia mortality in perspective. Anesth Analg 1990;71:113-119.

16. Macintosh RR. Deaths under anesthetics. Br J Anaesth 1948;21:107-136.

17. Hamilton WK. Unexpected deaths during anesthesia: wherein lies the cause?. Anesthesiology 1979;50:381-383.

18. Cooper JB, Newbower RS, Long CD, McPeek B. Preventable anesthesia mishaps: a study of human factors. Anesthesiology 1978;49:399-406.

19. Cooper JB, Newbower RS, Kitz RJ. An analysis of major errors and equipment failures in anesthesia management: considerations for prevention and detection. Anesthesiology 1984;60:34- 42.

20. Cooper JB.Pierce EC Jr., Cooper JB., ed. Toward prevention of anesthetic mishaps, Analysis of Anesthetic Mishaps. Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1984: pp 167-183.

21. Tomlin J. The Deep Sleep: 6,000 Will Die or Suffer Brain Damage. April 22 1982

22. Lunn JN, Mushin, WW. Mortality associated with Anaesthesia. London: Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, 1982.

23. Buck N, Devlin HB, Lunn JN. The Report of a Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths. London: Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, 1987.

24. Warden JC, Borton CL, Horan BF. Mortality associated with anaesthesia in New South Wales, 1984-1990. The Medical Journal of Australia 1994;161:585-593.

25. Keenan RL, Boyan CP. Cardiac arrest due to anesthesia: a study of incidence and causes. JAMA 1985;253:2373-2377.

26. Keenan RL, Boyan CP. Decreasing frequency of anesthetic cardiac arrest. J Clin Anesth 1991;3:354-357.

27. Solazzi RW, Ward RJ.Pierce EC Jr., Cooper JB., ed. The spectrum of medical liability cases, Analysis of Anesthetic Mishaps. Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1984: pp 43-59.

28. Cheney FW. ASA closed claims project - where have we been and where are we going?. American Society of Anesthesiologists Newsletter 1993;57:8-22.

29. Caplan RA, Posner KL, Ward RJ, Cheney FW. Adverse respiratory events in anesthesia: a closed claims analysis. Anesthesiology 1990;72:828-833.

30. American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Management of the Difficult Airway. Practice guidelines for management of the difficult airway. Anesthesiology 1993;78:597-602.

31. Mark LJ, Beattie C, Ferrell CL, Trempy G, Dorman T, Schauble JF. The difficult airway: mechanisms for effective dissemination of critical information. J Clin Anesth 1992;4:247-251.

32. Rendell-Baker L. Some gas machine hazards and their elimination. Anesth Analg 1976;55:26-33.

33. Rendell-Baker L. Better labels will cut drug errors. Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Newsletter 1987;2:29-32.

34. Gaba DM, Maxwell M, DeAnda A. Anesthetic mishaps: breaking the chain of accident evolution. Anesthesiology 1987;66:670-676.

35. Perrow C. Normal Accidents. New York: Basic Books, 1984.

36. Schwid HA, O'Donnell D. Anesthesiologists' management of simulated critical incidents. Anesthesiology 1992;76:495-501.

37. Eichhorn JH. Prevention of intraoperative anesthesia accidents and related severe injury through safety monitoring. Anesthesiology 1989;70:572-577.

38. Orkin FK. Practice standards: The Midas touch or the emperor's new clothes?. Anesthesiology 1989;70:567-571.

39. Gravenstein JS. The burden of progress: a fable. Anesth Analg 1991;72:262-270.

40. Gravenstein JS. Will "cost containment" decrease safety?. Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Newsletter 1995;10:25-29.

 

 
 
 

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