Importance of Postoperative Respiratory Complications in Perioperative Accidents

Abstract

  Ensuring medical safety is a basic and important roles of anesthesiologists. Summary reports from the third study of anesthesia-related mortality and morbidity are as follows : 1) Post-operative mortality rate (within 30 days) by critical accidents is 5.56 per 10,000 cases as a whole, 2) Anesthesia-related mortality rate is 0.10 per 10,000 cases, 3) The mortality rate tends to decrease in general.
  CCP (Closed Claims Project) reported that airway trouble and drug-related problems such as drug misuse and/or overdose were the main causes of the accidents.
  The development of devices used for airway management has recently made it comparatively safe to intubate, but it is still difficult to avoid accidents. In particular, the reports highlight the importance of postsurgical airway and breathing monitoring and respiratory care.