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13.12.2018 | Book and New Media Reviews
Anesthesia Outside the Operating Room, 2nd Edition
Richard D. Urman, Wendy L. Gross, Beverly K. Philip (Editors). Oxford University Press, 2018, $165.00, hardcover, 440 pages. ISBN-13: 9780190495756
verfasst von:
Kaitlin Duncan, MD
Erschienen in:
Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie
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Ausgabe 4/2019
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Excerpt
It is undeniably true that we as a specialty are spending more time taking care of sicker patients in more remote settings. A recent analysis published in
Anesthesia & Analgesia found that, in the United States, the proportion of non-operating room anesthesia (NORA) cases increased from 28.3% to 35.9% between 2010 and 2014, as did patient age, American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status classification, and the number of cases performed outside of normal working hours.
1 The relevance of this increasing non-OR work is underscored by the 2018 Anesthesia Closed Claims update showing that complications such as adverse respiratory events and aspiration pneumonitis occur more frequently in NORA cases and that malpractice claims for deaths are more common in non-OR settings than in the OR.
2 Plainly, we as anesthesiologists need to become comfortable working in these environments. The second edition of
Anesthesia Outside the Operating Room from the Oxford University Press is therefore a timely addition to the subject at hand. …
