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Perioperative Peripheral Nerve Injury After General Anesthesia
- Source :
- Anesthesia & Analgesia. 127:134-143
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2018.
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Abstract
- Perioperative peripheral nerve injury (PNI) is a well-recognized complication of general anesthesia that continues to result in patient disability and malpractice claims. However, the multifactorial etiology of PNI is often not appreciated in malpractice claims given that most PNI is alleged to be due to errors in patient positioning. New advances in monitoring may aid anesthesiologists in the early detection of PNI. This article reviews recent studies of perioperative PNI after general anesthesia and discusses the epidemiology and potential mechanisms of injury and preventive measures. We performed a systematic literature search, reviewed the available evidence, and identified areas for further investigation. We also reviewed perioperative PNI in the Anesthesia Closed Claims Project database for adverse events from 1990 to 2013. The incidence of perioperative PNI after general anesthesia varies considerably depending on the type of surgical procedure, the age and risk factors of the patient population, and whether the detection was made retrospectively or prospectively. Taken together, studies suggest that the incidence in a general population of surgical patients undergoing all types of procedures is
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Time Factors
Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring
Population
Anesthesia, General
Risk Assessment
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Peripheral Nerve Injuries
Predictive Value of Tests
Risk Factors
030202 anesthesiology
Malpractice
Humans
Medicine
Peripheral Nerves
Perioperative Period
education
Neurologic Examination
education.field_of_study
business.industry
Incidence
Perioperative
Treatment Outcome
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Anesthesia
Etiology
Neurosurgery
business
Orthopedic Procedures
Brachial plexus
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00032999
- Volume :
- 127
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Anesthesia & Analgesia
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f076ed31d8474c939b1df8e169eb2f28