Admissions to the intensive care unit after complications of anaesthetic techniques over 10 years
- 1 December 1989
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Anaesthesia
- Vol. 44 (12) , 953-958
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.1989.tb09194.x
Abstract
Fifty-three patients were admitted in a 5-year period to the intensive care unit as a result of a complication of an anaesthetic technique. These patients represented 1 in 1543 anaesthetics carried out in the District in the period and 2.0% of all admissions to the intensive care unit. The mortality rate was 17%. The complication was considered to be wholly or partially avoidable in 14 instances (26%). Five of these subjects died and two had a residual neurological deficit.Keywords
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