Severe outcomes of pediatric perioperative adverse events occurring in operating rooms compared to off-site anesthetizing locations in the Wake Up Safe Database
Paediatric Anaesthesia Jan 05, 2019
Uffman JC, et al. - As children are frequently provided anesthesia services outside of the traditional operating room environment, researchers investigated if adverse events which occur in off-site anesthetizing locations result in more severe outcomes compared to events occurring in traditional operating rooms. They analyzed de-identified data from 24 pediatric tertiary care hospitals participating in the Wake Up Safe registry during 2010-2015 including peri-procedural adverse events occurring in operating rooms or off-site locations. They identified 1594 adverse events including 362 events associated with off-site anesthetizing locations. Multivariable analysis revealed a greater likelihood of severe outcome for adverse events occurring in cardiac catheterization suites (but not other out of the OR sites), compared to adverse events occurring in the operating room was identified
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