Background Handovers of post-anesthesia patients to the intensive care unit (ICU) are often
unstructured and performed under time pressure. Hence, they bear a high risk of poor …

Background Anaesthesiology plays a key role in promoting safe perioperative care. This
includes the perioperative phase in the post‐anaesthesia care unit (PACU) where problems …

OBJECTIVES: Perioperative handoffs are a particularly high-risk period given patients'
postprocedural physiology, their physical transport through the hospital, and the triad …

Objective: To assess the effectiveness of standardizing operating room (OR) to intensive
care unit (ICU) handoffs in a mixed surgical population. Summary of Background Data …

Purpose Standardisation of the postoperative handover process via checklists, trainings or
procedural changes has shown to be effective in reducing information loss. The clinical …

Background Transitioning a patient from the operating theatre (OT) to the intensive care unit
(ICU) is a dynamic and complex process. Handover of the critically ill postoperative patient …

Background The immediate postoperative period is important, as the patient recovers from
the acute derangements resulting from the surgical insult and anaesthesia. Incomplete or …

BACKGROUND: Loss of information occurs frequently during handover and affects the
continuity of care. Improving handovers is therefore a key patient safety goal. After surgery …

Purpose Handover of patient care is a potential safety risk for the patient due to loss of
information which may result in adverse outcome. We hypothesized that a checklist for …

BACKGROUND Handovers during anaesthesia are common, and failures in communication
may lead to morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVES We hypothesised that intraoperative …