[Evaluation of 100 anesthetic incidents].
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.
Hirabayashi
Yoshihiro
Y
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi 329-0498.
Hotta
Kunihisa
K
Seo
Norimasa
N
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
D000777:Anesthetics