Why the study?
Has the rate of deaths associated with respiratory complications during anaesthesia changed between 1978-82 and 1999 in France?
Population
Cases of peri-operative death from the French national mortality database for the calendar year 1999…
Comparison
Anaesthesia practice in 1999 vs Anaesthesia practice in 1978-82
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Respiratory deaths and comas during anaesthesia were markedly lower in 1999 than 1978-82; leaves open whether targeted practice changes drove the trend.
Has the rate of deaths associated with respiratory complications during anaesthesia changed between 1978-82 and 1999 in France?
Deaths associated with respiratory complications during anaesthesia in France were strikingly reduced over a 15-year period.
Auroy et al. (2009) studied this question.
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