Postoperative Mortality in Children After 101,885 Anesthetics at a Tertiary Pediatric Hospital

Mortality is a basic measure for quality and safety in anesthesia. There are few anesthesia-related mortality data available for pediatric practice. Our objective for this study was to determine the incidence of 24-hour and 30-day mortality after anesthesia and to determine the incidence and nature of anesthesia-related mortality in pediatric practice at a large tertiary institution.Children ≤ 18 years old who had an anesthetic between January...