Mee A M, Cripps P J, Jones R S
Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Merseyside.
Vet Rec. 1998 Mar 14;142(11):275-6. doi: 10.1136/vr.142.11.275.
A retrospective analysis examined mortality associated with all procedures requiring general anaesthetic, performed at the Philip Leverhulme Large Animal Teaching Hospital, during the five-year period from February 1991 to December 1995. The study involved details relating to 2276 equine general anaesthetics and a variety of patient variables were examined. Within a group of 1279 animals undergoing anaesthesia for elective procedures, 46 (3.6 per cent) died or were euthanased owing to a poor prognosis or financial implications. Mortality relating directly to the surgery or anaesthesia occurred in eight of these cases. Therefore, the surgical/anaesthetic death rate was 0.63 per cent. Death which was apparently attributable directly to the anaesthesia (no organic cause of death found at postmortem examination) occurred only once, giving an anaesthetic death rate of 0.08 per cent.
一项回顾性分析研究了1991年2月至1995年12月期间在菲利普·利弗休姆大型动物教学医院进行的所有需要全身麻醉的手术的死亡率。该研究涉及2276例马全身麻醉的详细情况，并检查了各种患者变量。在一组1279例接受择期手术麻醉的动物中，46例（3.6%）因预后不良或经济因素死亡或实施了安乐死。其中8例死亡与手术或麻醉直接相关。因此，手术/麻醉死亡率为0.63%。明显直接归因于麻醉的死亡（尸检未发现器质性死亡原因）仅发生1例，麻醉死亡率为0.08%。
