Open AccessThe Anesthesia Perioperative “Call for Help”—Experience at a Quaternary Pediatric Medical Center: Analysis of 67,564 Anesthesia Encounters
Author(s) -
Bistra G. Vlassakova,
Sean Sinnott,
Nissa Askins,
Matthew Callahan,
Izabela Leahy,
David Zurakowski,
Paul R. Hickey,
Joseph P. Cravero
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/ane.0000000000003353
Subject(s) - medicine , perioperative , cohort , incidence (geometry) , anesthesiology , adverse effect , emergency medicine , medical record , anesthesia , medical emergency , surgery , physics , optics
During the past several decades, anesthesia has become increasingly safe. Truly major adverse events are rare, and anesthesia quality researchers have instituted programs to evaluate "near miss" or less critical adverse events to evaluate the safety of anesthesia delivery. In this study, we aimed to evaluate calls for emergency help in our institution as a surrogate for pending critical events. We hypothesized that calls would be more common in patients with high American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status, history of prematurity, and children with recent respiratory illness compared to those without these characteristics.