Table 2.
Mortality incidence in pediatric patients who underwent anesthesia between 2001 and 2011.
| Investigators and Year of Publication | Time Period and Data Source | Number of Patients and Time of Death | Age | Mortality Incidence per 10,000 Anesthetics | |
| Perioperative | Anesthesia-related | ||||
| Biboulet et al.(2001) (18) | 1989-1995Teaching hospitalFrance | 23,832Deaths within 12 hExcluded: ASA V patients | ≤14 y0-4 y5-14 y | NR | 0.4200.84 |
| Morita et al.(2001)*) (3) | 1999Group of hospitalsJapan | 732,788 (adults and children)Deaths within 7 days | <1 mo<12 mo<5 y<18 y | 42.752.952.541.7 | 0000.17 |
| Tay et al.(2001) (22) | 1997-1999Teaching hospitalSingapore | 10,000Deaths in OR and PACU | NR | 3.0 | 0 |
| Morita et al.(2002)*) (5) | 2000Group of hospitalsJapan | 910,757 (adults and children)Deaths within 7 days | <1 mo<12 mo<5 y<18 y | 18.864.61.261.57 | 000.210.14 |
| Newland et al.(2002) (19) | 1989-1999Teaching hospitalUSA | 16,051Deaths within 24 h | ≤20 y | NR | 0 |
| Murat et al.(2004) (20) | 2000-2002Teaching hospitalFrance | 24,165Deaths within 24 hExcluded: neurosurgery and cardiac surgery | ≤16 y0-<1 y1-7 y8-16 y | 0.412.7100 | 0 |
| Braz et al.(2006) (14) | 1996-2004Teaching hospitalBrazil | 15,263Deaths in OR and PACU | ≤17 y | 9.8 | 0 |
| Flick et al.(2007) (6) | 1998-2005Teaching hospitalUSA | 92,881Deaths in OR and PACU | <18 y0-30 days31 days-<1 y1-3 y4-9 y10-<18 y | 6.8144.719.25.73.12.1 | 0.210000.390.26 |
| Ahmed et al.(2009) (23) | 1992-2006Teaching hospitalPakistan | 20,216Deaths in ORExcluded: cardiac surgery | ≤18 y0-1 y>1-18 y | 3.4611.431.26 | 0.492.280 |
| Bharti et al.(2009) (7) | 2003-2008Teaching hospitalIndia | 12,158Deaths within 48 hExcluded: eye and cardiac surgeries | ≤17 y0-<1 y1-<4 y4 -<10 y10-17 y | 10.718.56.36.59.1 | 3.34.702.50 |
| Bunchungmongkol et al. (2009) (11) | 2003-2004Group of hospitals Thailand | 25,098Deaths within 24 h | ≤15 y0-1 y>1-8 y>8-15 y | 15.935.19.412.2 | 2.43.70.93.3 |
| van der Griend et al. (2011) (8) | 2003-2008Teaching hospitalAustralia | 101,885Deaths within 24 h | ≤18 y0-30 days31 days-<1 y1-<4 y4-<10 y10-18 y | 13.4180.132.26.63.45.9 | 0.693.510.801.110.310.36 |
OR = operating room; PACU = postanesthesia care unit; NR = not reported.
*
Japanese text: the information was obtained from the English abstract (the number of children anesthetized was not reported in the abstract).