Anesthesia-related mortality in pediatric patients: a systematic review

• Autor(a) principal: Gonzalez, Leopoldo Palheta
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Pignaton, Wangles, Kusano, Priscila Sayuri, Módolo, Norma Sueli Pinheiro, Braz, José Reinaldo Cerqueira, Braz, Leandro Gobbo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Clinics
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/clinics/article/view/19650
• topic: Anesthesia; Cardiac Arrest; Mortality; Perioperative; Pediatric; Review

This systematic review of the Brazilian and worldwide literature aimed to evaluate the incidence and causes of perioperative and anesthesia-related mortality in pediatric patients. Studies were identified by searching EMBASE (1951-2011), PubMed (1966-2011), LILACS (1986-2011), and SciElo (1995-2011). Each paper was revised to identify the author(s), the data source, the time period, the number of patients, the time of death, and the perioperative and anesthesia-related mortality rates. Twenty trials were assessed. Studies from Brazil and developed countries worldwide documented similar total anesthesia-related mortality rates (