Open AccessCritical incidents in paediatric anaesthesia: A prospective analysis over a 1 year period
Author(s) -
Raylene Dias,
Nandini Dave,
Swapna Chiluveru,
Madhu Garasia
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
indian journal of anaesthesia/indian journal of anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.645
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 0976-2817
pISSN - 0019-5049
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5049.193658
Subject(s) - medicine , anesthesia , period (music) , prospective cohort study , surgery , physics , acoustics
Critical incident reporting helps to identify errors and formulate preventive strategies. Many countries have existing national reporting systems. Such a system is yet to be established in India. We aimed to study the incidence of critical events in the paediatric operation theatre (OT) of our institute.