05 October 2020 : Clinical Research
Are We Meeting the Current Standards of Consent for Anesthesia? An International Survey of Clinical Practice
Tomas Jovaisa1ACDEF, Ieva Norkiene2ABCEF*, Juri Karjagin3AB, Iveta Golubovska4BC, Lukas Gambickas2BCE, Migle Kalinauskaite2BCE, Evaldas Kauzonas2BC, Dhuleep Wijayatilake5ABDEDOI: 10.12659/MSM.925905
Med Sci Monit 2020; 26:e925905
Table 1 Anesthesia complication rates reported by the respondents in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania and their predetermined ranges.
| Respondents, median% (IQR) | Predetermined% | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estonia (n=33) | Latvia (n=54) | Lithuania (n=146) | ||
| Dental damage | 0.25% (0.95)* | 1.0% (1.9) | 1.0% (4.8) | 0.05–0.15% |
| Anaphylaxis | 0.05% (0.99) | 0.1% (2.45) | 0.5% (0.98) | 0.005–0.01% |
| Awareness | 0.1% (0.49) | 0.1% (1.99) | 0.5% (1.03) | 0.1–0.7% |
| Death | 0.001% (0.09) | 0.1% (0.09) | 0.01% (0.81) | 0.0004–0.0007% |
| * =0.022 compared with Latvia and Lithuania. | ||||