Veterinary anaesthesia and analgesia

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• Vet Anaesth Analg · May 2014

  An evidence-based medicine approach to small animal anaesthetic mortality in a referral practice: the influence of initiating three recommendations on subsequent anaesthetic deaths.

  To evaluate anaesthetic death after implementation of recommendations and its risk factors in a small animal practice. ⋯ Following evidence based recommendations, the death rate related to anaesthesia was significantly decreased during period 2 compared to period 1. Application of evidence-based medicine may contribute to an effective approach to decrease death rates. Other factors, not monitored in this study, may also have had an impact.

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