title: [Evaluation of 100 anesthetic incidents].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The anesthetic incident-reporting scheme in the department of anesthesia, Jichi Medical School Hospital, has been running for 3 years and 100 incidents have now been reported.
  
  
  METHODS
  An 'anesthetic incident' was defined as any incident related to anesthesia which either caused harm, or if uncorrected might have caused harm, to a patient.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were 26 problems involving drugs, 18 airway and respiratory problems, 15 dental damages, 11 cardiovascular problems, 8 problems related epidural anesthesia, and 22 others.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The scheme has successfully highlighted weaknesses of the department.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi 329-0498.
authors.forename: Yoshihiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hirabayashi
authors.forename: Kunihisa
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hotta
authors.forename: Norimasa
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Seo
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia / Q000009:adverse effects*; D000761:Anesthesia Department, Hospital; D000777:Anesthetics / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004868:Equipment Failure / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012308:Risk Management / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
chemical_list: D000777:Anesthetics