A nationwide system to collect adverse events from anesthesia
A guest column by the American Society of Anesthesiologists, exclusive to KevinMD.com.
Anesthesiologists have been at the forefront of the patient safety movement. Over the past 25 years, anesthesia-related deaths have declined from two deaths per 10,000 anesthetics administered to one death per 200,000 to 300,000 anesthetics administered, due to improvements in patient safety and innovative research …
