TY - JOUR T1 - Coincidence JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 329 LP - 329 VL - 55 IS - 513 AU - Neville Goodman Y1 - 2005/04/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/55/513/329.2.abstract N2 - Once, a woman arrested while I was drawing up the local anaesthetic before inserting an intravenous cannula. Asystole. Dead. A few times around the algorithm made no difference, and the operating list was considerably shorter than planned. Apart from occasional angina, she'd been fine preoperatively; I'd anaesthetised her without incident 6 weeks previously.Lucky, wasn't I? Five minutes later it would have been my fault, with my nasty anaesthetic drugs. And who could think anything else? Anaesthetist injects drug; patient dies: res ipsa loquitur — ‘the … ER -