UNLABELLED We reviewed of a number of genetic diseases known or at risk for sedation or anesthesia complications. Some of these conditions are relatively common (e.g., Down's syndrome) whereas others are rare or present with multiple congenital anomalies that have an impact on health care delivery. We listed complications, recommended presedation evaluations, and included checklist items to ass...

“THE position of woman in any civilization is an index of the advancement of that civilization; the position of woman is gauged by the care given her at the birth of her child.” Although many developments have occurred in obstetric anesthesia since this quote’s first publication in 1929, advances in the subspecialty have been complicated by medicolegal, financial, maternal, and fetal considerat...

OBJECTIVE To construct and validate a nursing care protocol in anesthesia. METHOD methodological study of face and content validation, judging clarity, relevance, pertinence and comprehensiveness of a care protocol, elaborated from the integrative review of previous literature and based on the conceptual model of assistance perioperative nursing of Castellanos and Jouclas. The protocol was ev...

OBJECTIVE/AIM To study the incidence, causes, and outcome of perioperative cardiac arrests in children at a university teaching hospital with an aim of improving quality of care. BACKGROUND Analysis of anesthesia-related complications is routinely performed by most anesthesia departments to make prevention strategies. METHODS All perioperative cardiac arrests in children up to 18 years from...

INTRODUCTION Employment in the health care industry can be hazardous to one’s health. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor, health care is second only to manufacturing in the number of occupational illnesses and injuries sustained by their workers. Anesthesia personnel are at risk of acquiring a number of occupational illnesses and injuries that are endemic to the high intensity environment of...

BACKGROUND To fulfill the increasing demand of service quality improvement in recent years, it is imperative to develop a proper instrument to evaluate patient satisfaction with perioperative anesthetic care for many institutes in Taiwan. METHODS We used a six-factor 32-item pilot questionnaire developed in our previous study as our starting point in this study. Exploratory factor analysis of...

In the present study, we investigated how two team mental model properties (similarity vs. accuracy) and two forms of monitoring behavior (team vs. systems) interacted to predict team performance in anesthesia. In particular, we were interested in whether the relationship between monitoring behavior and team performance was moderated by team mental model properties. Thirty-one two-person teams ...

Importance Handing over the care of a patient from one anesthesiologist to another occurs during some surgeries and might increase the risk of adverse outcomes. Objective To assess whether complete handover of intraoperative anesthesia care is associated with higher likelihood of mortality or major complications compared with no handover of care. Design, Setting, and Participants A retrospe...

introduction: elective upper and lower gi endoscopy is usually performed in children on an outpatient basis with the child under sedation or general anesthesia (ga). the objective of this study was to describe anesthesia related complications in   children undergoing elective gi endoscopy.   materials and methods: the study design was descriptive on 1388 patients undergoing elective gi endoscop...