Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand = Chotmaihet thangphaet
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Multicenter Study
Perioperative pulmonary aspiration: an analysis of 28 reports from the Thai Anesthesia Incident Monitoring Study (Thai AIMS).
To study the patients' characteristics, outcomes, contributory factors, factors minimizing the incidence and suggested corrective strategies for perioperative pulmonary aspiration in Thailand. ⋯ The contributing factors that might lead to the incidents were improper decision (75%), lack of experience (53.5%) and lack of knowledge (21.4%). Factors minimizing incident, were vigilance (85.7%), having experienced assistant (50%) and experience in that situation (25%). Suggested preventive strategies were guidelines practice in anesthetic management (67.8%), improvement of supervision (57.1%), additional training (42.8%) and quality assurance activity (28.6%).