Anesthetic complications in a rehabilitation hospital: is the incidence related to the pre-anesthetic visit?

Introduction: Approximately 234 million surgeries are done annually worldwide. There is a growing concern for the safety of the anesthetic act, and the pre-anesthetic consultation emerges as an important and widely recommended activity, used as a preventive measure for the emergence of a complicatio...

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Main Authors: Ulises Prieto y Schwartzman, Kátia Torres Batista, Leonardo Teixeira D. Duarte, Renato Ângelo Saraiva, Maria do Carmo Barreto de C. Fernandes, Verônica Vieira da Costa, Luciana Souto Ferreira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-09-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0104001414000360