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December 1, 2002AnesthesiologyOpen Access

No Myth: Anesthesia Is a Model for Addressing Patient Safety

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Population

Surgical patients undergoing anesthesia

Design

Editorial

Authors

JCJeffrey B. CooperDGDavid M. Gaba

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Overview

Continuous vigilance is required despite gains; confirms long-term progress while leaving optimal next steps open.

Structured PICO

P
Population
Surgical patients undergoing anesthesia
O
Outcome
Anesthesia-related mortalitysafety

This editorial emphasizes that while anesthesia safety has dramatically improved over the past 50 years, it has not reached a plateau of perfect safety, necessitating ongoing systemic improvements.

Limitations

  • Confounding variation in definitions of anesthesia-related death
  • Relatively small sample sizes from selected institutions
  • Lack of large population studies
  • Changes in surgical complexity and patient sickness over time
  • Potential shifts in ASA physical status scoring over time

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Cooper et al. (2002) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7d32002f2f9d79738b24echttps://doi.org/10.1097/00000542-200212000-00003
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