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SVMIC Anesthesiology: Common Risk Issues
than $365 million.5
*Image reprinted with permission from the MPL Association (formerly known as PIAA). MPL Specialty Specific
Series — Anesthesiology, 2016 Edition, PIAA. Copyright, 2016.
While there have been tremendous safety improvements
through science, medicine, technology, regulation, and
techniques over the last three decades, all risks associated with
anesthesia have not been eliminated. Anesthesia and surgery
are inherently dangerous, and the opportunity for human error
continues to exist. Improved technology, guidelines, checklists,
“time-outs,” and other advancements are only successful if they
are implemented in a consistent and uniform manner. If these
improvements are ignored, anesthesia is no safer today than it
was three decades ago.
Indefensibility Issues
We’re going to take a look at SVMIC closed claims where there
was a paid loss for anesthesiologists, CRNAs, and/or the group
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