Anesthesia Critical Event Frequencies in Ethiopian Hospital 2024

Frequency data of critical events categorized by anesthesia type, nurse attendance, and surgery urgency from DCSH, Ethiopia. The dataset covers a 4-month period from June to September 2024. It was created by Abebaw Misganaw for analysis using multivariable logistic regression.

Use Cases

• Analyze the association between ASA Physical Status and the frequency of common critical events.
• Model the probability of developing critical events based on anesthesia type and surgery urgency using multivariable logistic regression.
• Investigate the relationship between patient factors like being underweight and the occurrence of residual anesthetic effects.
• Examine the impact of proper handover procedures on critical event rates across different surgery types.

Strengths

• Data is recent, covering a specific 4-month period in 2024.
• Includes clinically relevant categories such as ASA Physical Status and surgery urgency.
• Released under a permissive CC BY 4.0 license for broad reuse.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, indicating a limited sample size.
• Geographic scope is restricted to a single hospital (DCSH) in Ethiopia, limiting generalizability.
• Specific row and column counts are unknown, making it difficult to assess the scale and structure.

Provenance

Source

Abebaw Misganaw via figshare.

Collection Method

Based on a prospective cross-sectional study, as indicated by tags.

Time Range

June 1, 2024 to September 30, 2024.

Freshness

Last updated in March 2026, but the data itself is from mid-2024.

Geography

DCSH, Ethiopia.