Quelle démarche après une complication au bloc opératoire ?

Serious adverse events leading to potentially adverse outcome, require adapted treatment according to predetermined algorithms. Further to the occurrence of a critical anesthetic event, the decision of maintaining the surgical procedure and to close the operating theatre is based on a case-analysis. Health care providers, on the contrary, have to stop systematically the management of the next scheduled patients. Patient' relatives must receive concordant information from anesthetists and surgeons. A critical analysis of the events is mandatory in order to determine the causes and mechanisms susceptible to be corrected afterward.