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Admissions to the intensive care unit after complications of anaesthetic techniques over 10 years. 1. The first 5 years.

Intensive Care Unit, Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford.
Anaesthesia (impact factor: 2.96). 01/1990; 44(12):953-8. pp.953-8
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ABSTRACT Fifty-three patients were admitted in a 5-year period to the intensive care unit as a result of a complication of an anaesthetic technique. These patients represented 1 in 1543 anaesthetics carried out in the District in the period and 2.0% of all admissions to the intensive care unit. The mortality rate was 17%. The complication was considered to be wholly or partially avoidable in 14 instances (26%). Five of these subjects died and two had a residual neurological deficit.

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Keywords

14 instances
 
1543 anaesthetics
 
anaesthetic technique
 
intensive care unit
 
mortality rate
 
residual neurological deficit
 

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