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Addressing human factors through updated curricula, simulation, and mentor training is essential for improving patient safety in anesthesiology.
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This letter emphasizes the importance of addressing human factors and improving training, including simulation and mentoring, to further enhance patient safety in anesthesiology.
Anesthesiologists have played a special role in improving patient safety. By analyzing factors that could potentially harm patients and developing strategies to manage them, they have raised the bar in measuring safety. In the last three decades, anesthesia-related mortality has dropped to 0.04-7 per 10,000 anesthetics, representing a 10-fold decrease since the 1980s [1]. Human factors have been identified in 51%-77% of anesthesia-related deaths [1], thus indicating the need to strive for further improvement in the numbers and to ensure that errors are not repeated.
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Gauri Raman Gangakhedkar (2018) conducted a letter in Anesthesia-related patient safety. Addressing human factors through updated curricula, simulation, and mentor training is essential for improving patient safety in anesthesiology.
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