Chinese Med J Peking
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Chinese Med J Peking · Jan 2011
Intraoperative cardiac arrest during anesthesia: a retrospective study of 218,274 anesthetics undergoing non-cardiac surgery.
Patient safety has been gained much more attention in recent years. The authors reviewed patients who had cardiac arrest in the operating rooms undergoing noncardiac surgery between January 1989 and December 2001 at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA. The main objectives of the study were to determine the incidence of intraoperative cardiac arrest, to identify possible causes of cardiac arrest and to explore amenable modifications. ⋯ Most intraoperative cardiac arrests were not due to anesthesia-related causes. Anesthesia-related cardiac arrests might have a higher survival rate when compared to other possible causes of cardiac arrest in the operating room.