Crisis management manual

Why use a crisis management manual?

Crisis Management Manual
( CRISIS MANAGEMENT MANUAL )


All anaesthesiologists have to manage complex, rapidly evolving, life-threatening crises with little or no warning.

It has long been shown, however, that human beings can only perceive and process information at a finite rate.

In a crisis, events may unfold at a rate which exceeds our capacity to keep pace.


This Manual provides an approach, via a series of easy-to-access Algorithms and Sub-Algorithms, to any crisis which may occur when a patient is undergoing general or regional anaesthesia.

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Crisis management during anaesthesia: the development of an anaesthetic crisis management manual -- Runciman et al. 14 (3): e1 -- BMJ Quality and Safety

W B Runciman, M T Kluger, R W Morris, A D Paix, L M Watterson, R K Webb