Pregnant women, children, the elderly, as well as cardiovascular, neurosurgery and orthopedic patients are of the greatest concern to anesthesiologists, the head of the department of anesthesiology and resuscitation II (cardioanesthesiology) of the Russian Scientific Center for Surgery. Petrovsky, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences Boris Axelrod.
“A special article is pregnant women. I bow before obstetric anesthesiologists, because this is a double responsibility: two patients are simultaneously on the operating table with a large number of problems, ”explained the specialist.
Also, age is very important. In principle, elderly patients are a risk group, their death during anesthesia is much higher. Children is also a special article.
Although these patients are at risk, anesthetic death is unlikely with the use of modern drugs.
“In the late 1950s the death rate ranged from 6 to 3 cases per 10,000 anesthesia, in the late 80s from 1 to 4 cases per 10,000 anaesthesia, and now these are completely different numbers. The latest results show that the mortality rate in our time is 0.4 per 100,000 procedures,” he said. Axelrod finished his words.
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