Inattentional blindness - Do we really see what we see?

Vigilance is essential to safe anesthesia care. The ability for the anesthesiologist to note clinical change, analyze the events and take effective and timely action is critical to our practice. In this study, Dr. Ho and colleagues turn our attention to an understudied phenomenon- inattentional blindness [1]. This is defined as the failure to note events or actions that are in plain view, especially when that event is unexpected [2]. In this study, practicing academic anesthesiologists and medical students were asked to report on any abnormal vital signs or activities in a video of a simulated patient.

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