Chapter 3

Coping with Uncertainty. Resilient Decisions in Anaesthesia

Lucie Cuvelier and Pierre Falzon

This study aims to describe the variability anaesthesiologists deal with in their everyday work and to understand the different strategies used by them to avoid the negative consequences of this variability. An empirical research, based on the critical-incident technique was conducted in a paediatric anaesthesiology service in a French hospital. The results highlight a distinction between potential situations in which the problem was envisioned beforehand by practitioners and unthought-of situations which were unthinkable for the anaesthesiologist previously and at the time of their occurrence. This subjective classification based on ‘the astonishment ...

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