Patient injuries in response to anaesthetic procedures: cases evaluated by the Danish Patient Insurance Association

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
L D HoveDanish Patient Insurance Association

Abstract

In response to medical treatment, side-effects may occur and the patient may be injured. In Denmark, a patient is entitled to raise a claim for financial compensation and the validity of the claim which, based on defined criteria, is decided by the independent Patient Insurance Association (PIA). In this study, we investigated the files of the patients who were given financial compensation because of an injury caused by an anaesthetic procedure. We wanted to find the sort of injuries and the anaesthetic procedures involved and the size of financial compensation. A retrospective study of the PIA database from 1996 to 2002 concerning the speciality anaesthesiology. From 1996 to 2002, 18,917 patients made a claim and out of these 916 files were related to anaesthetic procedures, of which 374 cases resulted in financial compensation. In the same period, it is estimated that the total number of anaesthetic procedures was approximately 400,000 per year in Denmark. The primary causes for financial compensation were nerve lesions in response to regional anaesthesia (epidural, spinal, peripheral nerve blockade; n = 132), body positional-related injuries (n = 100), complications due to intravascular catheters or needles (n = 39) and teet...Continue Reading

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Oct 22, 2010·European Journal of Anaesthesiology·Lars D Hove, Jens K Christoffersen
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