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- K H Wu, R H Rau, C F Lin, and Y L Chan.
- Department of Anesthesiology, Mackay Memory Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
- Int Surg. 1997 Jul 1;82(3):254-6.
MethodsDuring the past 4 years, 48 cases of cardiac arrest occurred during anesthesia among a total of 104,600 cases of anesthesia at Mackay Memorial Hospital in Taipei.ResultsThe incidence of cardiac arrest was thus about 0.046% (48/104,600), with the causative factors being anesthetic related in 21% (10/48) of cases, surgical factors in 19% (9/48) of cases and patient's pathological factors in 60% (29/48) of cases. Of these 48 patients, 34 died and 14 survived after cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Anesthesia contributed to death in 3 cases of a total of 104,600 cases of anesthesia giving an approximate incidence of 3/100,000. Two of these 3 cases were avoidable.
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