Anesthesia: Perioperative morbidity and mortality: Hospital de San José, October and November 2007

Anestesia: Morbilidad y mortalidad perioperatorias: Hospital de San José, Octubre y Noviembre de 2007

Background: the Hospital of San José does not have records on morbidity and mortality related to anesthesia in surgeries performed in this institution. Objective: to describe the perioperative morbidity and mortality related to anesthesia in patients undergoing elective surgery at the Hospital of San José during October and November 2007. Methods: longitudinal descriptive observational study, where the outcomes of interest were perioperative morbidity and mortality related to anesthesia. Results: 727 patients scheduled for elective surgery were included. The average age was 44.5 years (SD 16.0), they were characterized as being functional class I (69.9%), ASA I classification in 51.1%, easy airway in 85% of patients and undergoing elective surgical category surgery A (50.7%) and B (43%). There was no mortality and the most frequent adverse event was arrhythmia (23 cases), 3.1%, mostly in patients in good clinical conditions. Conclusions: Arrhythmias and other adverse events observed in patients with good pre-anesthetic clinical conditions suggest to deepen strategies such as the best preanesthetic evaluation to reduce the morbidity related to anesthesia. Abbreviations: E Pre, preanesthetic evaluation.

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