ADVERSE EVENTS REPORTING IN ANAESTHESIA : AN IMPORTANT TOOL OF QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAM

2016-06-30T17-57-56Z
Source: Journal Of Advance Researches In Biological Sciences (A Peer Reviewed Indexed Medical Journal)
*Anand Nidhi, Rai V..
Anaesthesia practice is a complex system and adverse events do occur during the functioning of this system. The aim of our study was to identify the incidents, outcome and risk factors. Every anaesthesia department should develop adverse event reporting system to prevent recurrences, improve the outcome and make anaesthesia more safe to the patients. It was a two year prospective study conducted at tertiary level teaching hospital. During this period 8752 patients were given anaesthesia and 53 (0.61%) adverse events were reported. Maximum events occurred in general surgery department (26.42%) and in patients with ASA grade I (47.17%) and grade II (32.08%). 79.25% incidencts occurred during elective surgery and respiratory system (43.40%) was more involved. 94.34% patients had complete recovery while 5.66% showed fatal outcome. During the study under reporting of events was noted. Reporting of events and analyses are important to improve the patient safety and outcome.


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