Nihon Fukubu Kyukyu Igakkai Zasshi (Journal of Abdominal Emergency Medicine)
Online ISSN : 1882-4781
Print ISSN : 1340-2242
ISSN-L : 1340-2242
Informed Consent for Anesthesia of Emergency Abdominal Surgery
Ryo OgawaMichiru MoriyamaKazuhiro NakanishiYoshiyuki OhiAtsuhiro Sakamoto
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2003 Volume 23 Issue 1 Pages 59-62

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Abdominal emergency surgery has been done frequently to save lives, to impove general conditions and to removo discomforts. Informed consent forms are reqired to obtain from patients for anesthesia. Informed consent includes offering of informations by physicians and understandind, assenting selection and consenting by the patients. So, anesthsiologists have to inform the real risks of anesthesia. We analysed the mortality of patients with abdominal operation under anesthesia. The revealed was a high frequency of death as 3.8% within one month after anesthesia and operation. Theb reasons why the patients showed a high mortality were revealed as older age of patients, high rate of complications which are threatening lives of the patients. The informed consent should includs the informations on the higher mortality in abdominal emergency operations than elective ones.
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