Persisting high rates of omissions during anesthesia induction are decreased by utilization of a pre- & post-induction checklist
Main finding · Omission ratesResult — go to the resultRelative risk 0.64 95% CI 0.45–0.92Authors' conclusion
Omission rates during the pre- and post-induction phases of routine general anesthesia procedures remain high.
Study context
- Population
- Non-emergent GA inductions; providers familiar with the institutional checklists (CL)
- Participants
- 237 GA inductions
- Exposure
- Checklist use vs no checklist use during GA induction
- Outcome
- Omission rate in the pre- and immediate post-induction phases
Methodological detailsmonocentric, CL introduced two years prior to the study
- Monocentric
- CL introduced two years prior to the study
Main finding
Omission rates
Relative risk
0.64
95% CI 0.45–0.92
P = 0.01
CL vs No CL
RR 0.64 (95% CI 0.45–0.92); P = 0.01
As reported in the abstract
- ≥1 omission, pre-induction setup
- 32%
- ≥1 omission, immediate post-induction phase
- 40%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
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Original publication
Persisting high rates of omissions during anesthesia induction are decreased by utilization of a pre- & post-induction checklist. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. Published 10 December 2022. doi:10.
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