Anesthesia and analgesia
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Anesthesia and analgesia · Jan 1975
Comparative StudyA survey of the practice of anesthesiology in the U.S.--1972.
During the calendar year 1972, 46 hospitals throughout the U. S. A. participated in a survey of their anesthesia practices, using simple criteria from the "Standards of Patient Care in Anesthesiology." Eight "yes-no" questions were asked: 1. ⋯ Did the patient live? Data from 208,868 anesthetic procedures indicated an overall mortality rate of 1.1 percent. Although affirmative responses in excess of 73 percent were noted to each condition of practice, only 50.9 percent of the cases received such a response to all five practice criteria; that is, questions 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7. A sample survey of data indicated a comparatively similar standard of practice between simple and complex operative cases.