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Abbreviations

AAGBI:

Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland

ASAP:

Anaesthesia Sprint Audit of Practice

CNB:

Central Neuraxial Block

CSE:

Combined Spinal–Epidural

HSRC:

Health Services Research Centre

NAP:

National Audit Project

NaPSAS:

National Patient Safety Alerting System

NHS:

National Health Service

NIAA:

National Institute of Academic Anesthesia

NPSA:

National Patient Safety Agency

NRLS:

National Reporting and Learning System

RCoA:

Royal College of Anaesthetists

SALG:

Safe Anaesthesia Liaison Group

SNAP:

Sprint National Anesthesia Project

UK:

United Kingdom

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  1. Division of Neuroscience, Institute of Academic Anaesthesia, Medical Research Institute, Ninewells Hospital & University of Dundee School of Medicine, Dundee, Scotland, UK

    Graeme A. McLeod FRCA, FFPMRCA, MD

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Brendan T. Finucane

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA

    Ban C.H. Tsui

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McLeod, G.A. (2017). United Kingdom: Recent Advances in the Safety and Prevention of Regional Anesthesia Complications. In: Finucane, B., Tsui, B. (eds) Complications of Regional Anesthesia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49386-2_31

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