title: Risk and safety of anaesthesia outside the operating room.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the risks and safety of anaesthesia performed outside the operating room.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Very little information and hard data are available. However, paediatric patients are often involved in complications, substandard care is often prominent and inadequate monitoring is often a contributory factor. The risk of complications is higher with nonoperating room anaesthesia than with anaesthesia inside the operating room.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is an urgent need for good data on complications with anaesthesia outside the operating room.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. marc.vandevelde@uz.kuleuven.ac.be
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Van de Velde
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Roofthooft
authors.forename: Marina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kuypers
mesh_terms: D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures; D000758:Anesthesia / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D009873:Operating Rooms; D012307:Risk Factors