Description
Determination of which best describes this anesthesia event: awareness, malignant hyperthermia, oversedation, or incorrect site anesthesia.
On-Screen Instructions
Select all that apply.If the anesthesia event involved a device, please also submit as a “device or medical/surgical supply” event. If the anesthesia event involved a medication or other substance (not including medical gas), please also submit as a “medication or other substance” event.
Field Type
Checkbox (multiselect)
Responses
Awareness (during anesthesia)
Patient death or serious injury associated with awareness during anesthesia.
Includes
Under-sedation (submit under-sedation involving a medication (not including medical gas) as both “anesthesia” and “medication or other substance” events)
Excludes
Surgeries or other invasive procedures in which the patient is intentionally conscious
Malignant hyperthermia
Patient death or serious injury associated with malignant hyperthermia.
Includes
Malignant hyperthermia that requires treatment with a rescue drug
Excludes
No additional information provided.Oversedation
Patient death or serious injury associated with oversedation.
Includes
Oversedation associated with anesthesia during the operative period and prior to discharge from the PACU
Oversedation involving a medication or other substance (not including medical gas) (submit as both “anesthesia” and “medication or other substance” events)
Excludes
Oversedation associated with medications after the patient has left the PACU (submit as “Medication or other substance: oversedation”)
Physical injury
Serious physical injury associated with anesthesia.
Includes
Dental injury
Ocular injury
Peripheral nerve injury
Excludes
No additional information provided.Event-Type Specific Questions |
Incorrect site anesthesia
Patient death or serious injury associated with an anesthetic block placed at an incorrect site.
Includes
Regional blocks
Nerve blocks
Excludes
Incorrect site anesthesia administration (select “Surgical or other invasive procedure event (incorrect site or side)”)
Difficulty managing airway
Patient death or serious injury associated with difficulty managing the patient’s airway related to anesthesia.
Includes
Difficulty during tracheal intubation
Difficulty maintaining airway during procedure
Esophageal intubation
Re-intubation, following unplanned/unintended extubation, in the operating or recovery room
Excludes
No additional information provided.Event-Type Specific Questions |
Other (please describe)
Patient death or serious injury related to an anesthesia event not otherwise included in the above categories.
Includes
Inadvertent bilateral epidural phrenic nerve block
Adverse reaction to anesthesia
Excludes
Contaminated anesthetic gas (submit as “Contaminated, wrong, or no gas given to the patient”)
Anesthetic medication (submit as “Medication or other substance”)
Problem with device used in the delivery of anesthesia (submit as “Device or medical/surgical supply”)
Guide for Use
If “Other” is selected, a text box for a description will also appear.History
Start Date | 2012 |
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End Date | n/a |
Change History | n/a |