Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthésie
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The difficult airway cart is essential for difficult airway management. Recognition of the importance of human factors in critical scenarios promoted the evolution of the difficult airway cart. Limitation to essential equipment, a structured layout, and proper labelling should be observed. We sought to redesign the difficult airway cart accordingly and analyze how perioperative professionals reacted to it. ⋯ Our quality improvement project successfully designed and implemented a new visual-based difficult airway cart at our institution. We believe this report enables other institutions to reproduce our project.
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Nonclinical factors affecting intraoperative red blood cell transfusion: a systematic review.
There is significant variability in intraoperative red blood cell (RBC) transfusion practice. We aimed to use the theoretical domains framework (TDF) to categorize nonclinical and behavioural factors driving intraoperative RBC transfusion practice in a systematic review of the literature. ⋯ Open Science Framework ( https://osf.io/pm8zs/?view_only=166299ed28964804b9360c429b1218c1 ; first posted, 3 August 2022).