Audits and critical incident reporting in paediatric anaesthesia: lessons from 75,331 anaesthetic

This study reports our experience of audit and critical incidents observed by paediatric anaesthetics from 2000 to 2010 at a paediatric teaching hospital in Singapore.Data pertaining to patient demographics, practices and critical incidents during anaesthesia and in the perioperative period were prospectively collected via an audit form and retrospectively analysed thereafter.A total of 2,519 incidents were noted at the 75,331 anaesthetics...