[Adverse events of anesthesia in pediatric surgery scheduled at Gabriel Toure hospital].

UNLABELLED: The occurrence of an event planned or unplanned during anesthesia is a concern for staff. This event may jeopardize the success of surgery gesture. Pediatric Surgery therefore has its own specific complications that it requires anesthesia.

PURPOSE: To evaluate the incidence of adverse events during anesthesia in pediatric surgery scheduled.

STUDY TYPE: Descriptive non-randomized study.

PATIENTS AND METHODS: Descriptive non-randomized study on adverse events related to anesthesia in children over a period of seven months. It took place in the anesthesia and intensive care unit and the pediatric surgery unit of Gabriel Toure hospital in Bamako. It focused on patients aged 0 to 12 years scheduled for surgery under general anesthesia during the study period.

RESULTS: Sixty six percent of patients selected was male gender with a sex ratio of 3 in favor of males. The average age was 2 years with extremes of 16 days and 12 years and a standard deviation of 2.93. The old history of premature was found in 36% of patients and 2% of asthmatic. The number of patients experiencing an adverse event is 42 on a total of 107 patients collected either 39.25%. When the children were younger than one year adverse events occurred with 30, 76%. The occurrence of adverse events was more frequent when the child was not intubated with P < 0.05. All adverse events have received support except tachycardia, late revival but all developed positively.

CONCLUSION: This study estimates the incidence of adverse events in anesthesia during pediatric surgery. The overall rate of patients experiencing an adverse event is relatively high. Children age less than or equal to one year are most vulnerable.