Outcomes from Wake Up Safe, the pediatric anesthesia quality improvement initiative.
Haché M, Sun LS, Gadi G, et al. Outcomes from Wake Up Safe, the pediatric anesthesia quality improvement initiative. Paediatr Anaesth. 2020;30(12):1348-1354. doi:10.1111/pan.14044.
The Wake Up Safe initiative includes a registry of serious adverse events occurring in pediatric anesthesia. This study analyzed events reported between 2010 and 2015. The most common anesthesia-related events were medication events, respiratory complications, and cardiac events. Approximately 85% of these events were considered to be preventable.