Open AccessCost identification analysis of general anesthesia
Author(s) -
Rohit Malhotra,
Nishant Kumar,
Aparna Jain
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of anaesthesiology-clinical pharmacology/journal of anaesthesiology clinical pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 2231-2730
pISSN - 0970-9185
DOI - 10.4103/joacp.joacp_77_19
Subject(s) - medicine , isoflurane , anesthesia , sevoflurane , anesthetic , consumables , minimum alveolar concentration , surgery , business , marketing
Rising health costs are challenging anesthesiologists to search for cost-effective anesthetic techniques. We conducted a study to estimate variable cost per case and cost of drug wastage as percentage of total drug cost associated with different modalities of general anesthesia (GA).