They identified emergency pages and the outcomes from 2005 to 2010 in main operating rooms. In the nearly five year span, more than 258,000 anesthetics were performed and 370 emergency pages were recorded.
Infants had the highest instance of emergency pages; the alerts were rare in children older than 2. The most frequent causes were hemodynamic cases and children respiratory or airway events.
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