Burns caused by monitoring equipment during anaesthesia.
Hazards of monitoring during anaesthesia are burns, cardiac arrest or ventricular fibrillation, electric shock and false alarms caused by interference with the traces. The causative and contributory factors and the measures for the prevention of burns are discussed.
D000758:Anesthesia; D002057:Burns, Chemical; D002058:Burns, Electric / Q000209:etiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000295:instrumentation