Adverse events during anaesthesia at an Ethiopian referral hospital: a prospective observational study

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Incident reporting systems are widely utilised within healthcare to analyse adverse events and have been shown to reduce patient harm. With data to suggest high anaesthetic-related mortality in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), such systems could allow more accurate determination of rates and types of incidents and could improve patient safety.

Keywords

• anaesthesia
• adverse event
• critical incident