Open AccessPerianesthetic and Anesthesia-Related Mortality in a Southeastern United States Population: A Longitudinal Review of a Prospectively Collected Quality Assurance Data Base
Author(s) -
Richard J. Pollard,
Thomas Hopkins,
Christopher C. Smith,
Bryan May,
James J. Doyle,
Carrie Anne Chambers,
Reese H. Clark,
William C. Buhrman
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.0000000000003483
Subject(s) - medicine , quality assurance , population , quality (philosophy) , environmental health , pathology , external quality assessment , philosophy , epistemology
Perianesthetic mortality (death occurring within 48 hours of an anesthetic) continues to vary widely depending on the study population examined. The authors study in a private practice physician group that covers multiple anesthetizing locations in the Southeastern United States. This group has in place a robust quality assurance (QA) database to follow all patients undergoing anesthesia. With this study, we estimate the incidence of anesthesia-related and perianesthetic mortality in this QA database.