Anesthesia-related Maternal Mortality

Practice guidelines and prevention of obstetric anesthesia-related maternal mortality.

In the United States obstetric anesthesia has been a major subspecialty of anesthesiology for a long time and is now an integral part of practice of most anesthesiologists1. An obstetric anesthesiologist has become an essential member of the obstetric care team, who closely works with the obstetrician, family practitioner, midwife, neonatologist and Labor and Delivery nurse to ensure the highes...

Perioperative and Anesthesia-Related Mortality

In 2006, a previous study at our institution reported high perioperative and anesthesia-related mortality rates of 21.97 and 1.12 per 10,000 anesthetics, respectively. Since then, changes in surgical practices may have decreased these rates. However, the actual perioperative and anesthesia-related mortality rates in Brazil remains unknown. The study aimed to reexamine perioperative and anesthes...

Survey of anesthesia-related mortality in France.

BACKGROUND This study describes a nationwide survey that estimates the number and characteristics of anesthesia-related deaths for the year 1999. METHODS Death certificates from the French national mortality database were selected from the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision codes using a variable sampling fraction. Medical certifiers were sent a questionnaire (response r...

Postpartum Hemorrhage Causes Maternal Mortality

Mortality related to anesthesia and sleep deprivation in medical doctors.

To the Editor:—The article of Lienhart et al. 1 must be applauded. Because of the authors’ careful and high-quality methodology, this work—begun in 1996 and covering an entire nation—was able to estimate anesthesia-related mortality in France. This work confirms the critical role of cardiac disease, aging, emergency care and hemorrhage in mortality related to anesthesia. Perhaps more importantl...