Key result
The average incidence of anesthetic emergencies in Ukrainian hospitals was 0.94%, with 24.5% of affected patients requiring prolonged treatment and 6.5% resulting in in-hospital mortality.
Cohort (n=20,000)
Yes
Anesthetic emergencies in Ukraine occur in nearly 1% of cases, frequently involving low-risk patients during elective procedures, highlighting the need for systematic incident reporting and improved preoperative assessment.
Anesthesia-associated mortality has decreased during the last three decades as a result of several measures undertaken to improve patient safety. These included analysis of critical incidents and errors that occurred during the anesthesia, as well as factors that contribute to such incidents. Such factors may be related to the patient, operation or anesthesia. According to our study the most common incidents were related to the respiratory system: difficult airway, reintubation, oxygen desaturation; cardiovascular system: hypotension, tachycardia, bradycardia, hypertension, collapse; massive hemorrhage. Anesthetic emergencies occur rather often in Ukraine and impact the treatment results significantly. Notification, registration and analysis of such incidents are not being performed systematically, which proves to be one of the major threats to patient safety during anesthesia.
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Bielka et al. (2022) conducted a cohort in Anesthetic emergencies (n=20,000). Anesthesia was evaluated on Incidence of anesthetic emergencies. The average incidence of anesthetic emergencies in Ukrainian hospitals was 0.94%, with 24.5% of affected patients requiring prolonged treatment and 6.5% resulting in in-hospital mortality.
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