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- Title
Reported anaesthetic complications during an 11-year period. A retrospective study.
- Authors
Wang, L. P.; Hägerdal, M.; Hägerdal, M
- Abstract
Retrospectively 120 anaesthetic complications with potential medicolegal consequences were reviewed. Seven deaths occurred. Eighty percent of the complications were potentially avoidable. Of the complications 4.4% resulted in major morbidity and 82.3% in intermediate morbidity. Dental injuries were reported with an annual frequency of six. The use of pulse oximetry and/or capnography could possibly have prevented 18% of all complications apart from dental injuries. Ten cases were reported to the National Swedish Board of Health and Welfare; four cases resulted in disciplinary consequences. The influence of human factors on the development of complications is stressed.
- Publication
Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, 1992, Vol 36, Issue 3, p234
- ISSN
0001-5172
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1399-6576.1992.tb03456.x