Study: Infants Most Often Trigger Emergency Anesthesia Alerts

Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., analyzed the characteristics of an electronic anesthesiology visual paging system used intraoperatively to alert personnel if an emergency situation has occurred in adults and children, according to Anesthesia-Analgesia.

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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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