SPECIAL COMMITTEE INVESTIGATING DEATHS UNDER ANAESTHESIA REPORT ON 745 CLASSIFIED CASES, 1960–1968
- 1 March 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 1 (12), 573-594
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1970.tb116940.x
Abstract
Deaths in association with anaesthesia for the State of New South Wales over a period from 1960 to 1968 have been investigated by a Special Committee. Of the total of 1,603 which occurred during this time, information has been obtained on 1,462, and of this total, 745 have been considered as sufficiently related to the anæsthetic to warrant detailed examination; 286 were finally assessed as having been wholly or partly due to anaesthesia. The patients, hospitals, anæsthetists and anæsthetics Involved in these deaths are discussed and the errors responsible for them examinedKeywords
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