Anesthesia‐related mortality and morbidity over a 5‐year period in 2,363,038 patients in Japan

Kawashima, Y.; Takahashi, Shosuke; Suzuki, M.; Morita, Kiyoshi; Irita, K.; Iwao, Yasuhide; N, Seo; Tsuzaki, Koichi; Dohi, Shuji; Kobayashi, Tsutomu; Goto, Y; Suzuki, Genjiro; Fujii, Ayano; Suzuki, Hidemi; Yokoyama, Kazuko; Kugimiya, T

doi:10.1034/j.1399-6576.2003.00166.x

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Anesthesia‐related mortality and morbidity over a 5‐year period in 2,363,038 patients in Japan

Published in Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica • Jul 10, 2003

Authors:

Y. Kawashima

Shosuke Takahashi

M. Suzuki

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Statistical data of mortality and morbidity related to anesthesia have not been reported in Japan since World War II. The need to comprehensively examine the events of cardiac arrest as well as mortality prompted the first national study in Japan. METHODS: Confidential questionnaires wer...

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Medicine

Etiology

Incidence (geometry)

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