Post-Anesthesia Critical Events at an Ethiopian Hospital

From June to September 2024, a prospective study at Debre Markos Comprehensive Specialized Hospital recorded 214 complications among 422 surgical patients. The dataset contains patient-level data on critical events, with 37.9% of patients experiencing one or more incidents. It includes factors like BMI, anesthesia duration, ASA physical status, intraoperative complications, and PACU staff training.

Use Cases

• Analyze the association between BMI categories (underweight, overweight) and the odds of critical events using multivariable logistic regression.
• Model the risk of critical events based on anesthesia duration categories (1-2 hours, >2 hours) and ASA physical status (II, III, IV).
• Investigate the impact of intraoperative complications and proper patient handover procedures on post-anesthesia care unit outcomes.
• Examine the relationship between PACU staff training status and the likelihood of patients developing complications.

Strengths

• Data covers 422 patient records from a defined four-month study period in 2024.
• Analysis identifies specific, statistically significant risk factors with adjusted odds ratios (e.g., ASA IV AOR=11.75).
• Study design was a prospective cross-sectional analysis conducted at a single specialized hospital.

Limitations

• Small sample size of 422 patients limits generalizability of findings.
• Single-institution study from Ethiopia, which may not represent populations or practices in other regions.
• Dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, indicating limited scope and likely a summarized dataset rather than raw patient records.

Provenance

Source

Debre Markos Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Ethiopia.

Collection Method

Institution-based prospective cross-sectional study.

Time Range

June 1, 2024, to September 30, 2024.

Freshness

Data collected from June 1, 2024, to September 30, 2024; last platform update was March 2026.

Geography

Debre Markos, Ethiopia.