Risk management in any discipline of healthcare is very important to achieve patient safety goal and quality improvement of healthcare. Anesthesia is often associated with risk and needs to be assessed cautiously. The present article summarized few recommendation for better anesthetic practices.
Anesthesia-related adverse events: Statistical Data Severe brain injury: 1 per 1,70,000 cases. Peripheral nerve damage related to patient positioning (1 per 10,000 cases) Severe damage due to peripheral nerve blocks (1:5,000), Mild damage (1:100) Spinal cord/nerve roots damage (15:10000) Anaphylaxis (1:10000) Risk Awareness: This describes the awareness of potential risk with anesthetic practices such as, the routine anesthetic machine check, syringe labeling, appropriate supervision of trainees and trained assistants, and competency assessment of anesthetists to ensure they are capable of…
