Dental injury associated with anaesthesia: An 8-year database analysis of 592 claims from a major French insurance company

Anaesthesia Critical Care and Pain Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 49-53

  Giraudon, Antoine ^a   de Saint Maurice, Guillaume ^b   Biais, Matthieu ^a   Benhamou, Dan ^c   Nouette Gaulain, Karine ^a  

^a BORDEAUX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b PERCY MILITARY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Anaesthetic risk; Claims; Dental injury; Insurance database; Liability; Perioperative medicine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; DENTAL BRIDGE INJURY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOSCOPY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; FRANCE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCISOR; INGESTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY ENDOSCOPY; RISK FACTOR; TOOTH FRACTURE; TOOTH INJURY; FACTUAL DATABASE; INFORMED CONSENT; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATION CONTROL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; ANESTHESIA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TOOTH FRACTURES; TOOTH INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85029897995     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23525568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.accpm.2017.04.007     Document Type: Article

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