Handoff Opinions and Practice
• 10% of experienced anesthetists reported using guidelines for handoffs of anesthetized patients
• Majority reported concerns of accountability and defensibility around handoffs
• “Formalization” would be valuable
• 84% of surveyed had
given a ‘poor’ handoff in
previous year
• 25% related an adverse event associated with a poor handoff
Anesthesia 2004;59:658-63 Oschner Jour
2011;11:99-101