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Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine — A.P.I.C.E. pp 733–743Cite as

Early Adverse Effects in the Postoperative Period

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The recognition that the immediate postanaesthetic period is a time of high risk of morbidity and mortality was first addressed by the report of the Anaesthesia Study Commission of the Philadelphia County Medical Society in 1947. This eleven-year study reported on 307 patients who died within 24 hours of the induction of anaesthesia. Nearly half these deaths were classified as preventable, and in 63% of this group death was considered primarily due to unrecognised airway obstruction. All occurred in the immediate postanaesthetic period [1].

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Paver-Eržen, V. (1997). Early Adverse Effects in the Postoperative Period. In: Gullo, A. (eds) Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine — A.P.I.C.E.. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2296-6_67

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