Injury and liability associated with monitored anesthesia care: A closed claims analysis

Anesthesiology

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 228-234

  Bhananker, Sanjay M ^a   Posner, Karen L ^a   Cheney, Frederick W ^a   Caplan, Robert A ^a,b   Lee, Lorri A ^a   Domino, Karen B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; KETOROLAC; OPIATE; PROPOFOL; SEDATIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BURN; CAPNOGRAPHY; CAUTERIZATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEATH; DRUG OVERDOSE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EYE SURGERY; FACE SURGERY; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL LIABILITY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OPERATING ROOM; OXYGEN SUPPLY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; ANESTHESIOLOGY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; FACTUAL DATABASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSURANCE; LEGAL ASPECT; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHESIOLOGY; BURNS; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; MALE; MALPRACTICE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33644963774     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200602000-00005     Document Type: Article

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