How do we report complications stemming from the administration and management of regional anesthetics? Once reported, how should we categorize them? What about advanced decision-support to guide local practices?
Recently, Buckenmaier et al have recently published a superb system for cataloguing complications from regional anesthesia. In this series, they reported an overall morbidity rate of 9.5% and mortality rate of 0.08%.
The story doesn’t end there. Head on over to http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/122593797/HTMLSTART for a nice review.
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