[Prevention of anesthesia accidents].
All general anesthetics include a risk to life. The etiology and circumstances of complications with cardiac arrest are studied. Accent is placed on the frequency of fatal accidents for benign operations and on the poor prognosis of accidents with hypoxia. The prevention of accidents and their sequelae, such as encephalopathy, requires one to foresee and treat efficaciously as soon as possible cardiac arrest. To reach these objectives, efforts should be made on preparation of the patients, on the equipment and its maintenance, on the grouping of units where fatal accidents most frequently occur, on the creation of departments of anesthesia with re-awakening wards, on the training of medical and surgical teams with better supervision of young anesthetists.
D000768:Anesthesia, General / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002534:Hypoxia, Brain / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012151:Resuscitation
Prévention des accidents de l'anesthésie