We may be Homo sapiens, but anaesthetists are merely apes when evaluating risk

Br J Anaesth. 2018 Oct;121(4):702-705. doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2018.07.022. Epub 2018 Sep 1.

Authors

A Aranake-Chrisinger¹, E L Whitlock², M S Avidan³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA. Electronic address: aranakea@wustl.edu.
² Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
³ Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA.

PMID: 30236232
DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2018.07.022

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Anesthesia, General / adverse effects*
Anesthesiologists*
Anesthetics / adverse effects*
Cognition Disorders / etiology*
Humans
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
Research
Risk Assessment / methods*

Substances

Anesthetics

Grants and funding

T32 GM008440/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States