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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Anesthesiology. 2009 Apr;110(4):796–804. doi: 10.1097/01.anes.0000344728.34332.5d

Table 3.

Patient and anesthesia characteristics (N=593)*

Characteristic N (%)

ASA physical status
1 438 (73.9)
2 124 (20.9)
3 24 (4.0)
4 7 (1.2)
Age at first exposure, years
 <1 195 (32.9)
 1 155 (26.1)
 2 131 (22.1)
 3 112 (18.9)
Anesthetic exposures (N)
 1 449 (75.7)
 2 100 (16.9)
 3–4 31 (5.2)
 5–9 8 (1.3)
 10 or more 5 (0.8)
Duration of anesthesia, minutes
 Mean ± SD 125 ± 227
 Median (IQR) 75 (45, 120)

ASA, American Society of Anesthesiologists; IQR, interquartile range. N, number; %, percentage; SD, standard deviation.

*

Data related to anesthesia characteristics were available for all patients; for all patients

For infants that underwent multiple anesthetics the highest ASA physical status is used. These 593 individuals underwent a total of 875 anesthetics (range 1 to 25 per person);

Data presented correspond to the cumulative total duration of anesthesia for each individual (N=593). The median duration per anesthetic (N=875) was 70 minutes (range 10 to 560).