Anesthesia event type
- Sydney Edlund
- Suzanne Wood
Description
Determination of which best describes this anesthesia event.
On-Screen Instructions
If the anesthesia event involved a device, please also select Device or medical/surgical supply (including use error) event. If the anesthesia event involved a medication or other substance (not including medical gas), please also select Medication or other substance event.
Field Type
Checkbox (multiselect)
Responses
Awareness (during anesthesia)
Patient death or serious injury associated with awareness during anesthesia.
Includes
Undersedation (under-sedation involving a medication (not including medical gas) select 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
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) (select both Anesthesia and Medication or other substance events)
Excludes
Oversedation associated with medications after the patient has left the PACU (select Medication or other substance: Oversedation event)
Additional Support |
Physical injury
Serious physical injury associated with anesthesia.
Includes
Dental injury
Ocular injury
Peripheral nerve injury
Excludes
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: Incorrect site or side event)
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
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 (select Contaminated, wrong, or no gas given to the patient event)
Anesthetic medication (select Medication or other substance event)
Problem with device used in the delivery of anesthesia (select Device or medical/surgical supply (including use error) event)
Guide for Use
History
Start Date | 2012 |
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End Date | n/a |
Change History | n/a |
Field Name | anesth_type |
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