Adverse events occurred in 2% of children who underwent procedures for airway management under general anesthesia, with higher rates in neonates and infants. Risk factors included younger age, the ...

The study aimed at evaluating the nature of adverse events associated with moderate sedation outside the OR and its relation to patient characteristics and outcomes. Researchers identified 52 cases ...

A secure clinical event reporting system linked to an anesthesia information management system captured almost twice the number of adverse events as usual, according to a study published in Anesthesia ...

In broad estimates, anesthesia-related mortality today is often cited around one in 100,000 to one in 200,000 cases. And for healthy patients undergoing routine procedures, some sources like the ...

Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal. Mounting evidence indicates that opioid-sparing anesthesia (OSA) decreases opioid-related adverse events.

Patients given ester-based local anesthetics may be at greater risk of having serious complications when they are administered numbing agents, according to a study published on March 31 in the ...