Case Review of Transition of Md to Crna in Surgery Center

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Qual Saf Health Care. 2006 Aug; 15(4): 258–263.

Time of day effects on the incidence of anesthetic adverse events

Abstract

Groundwork

We hypothesized that time of day of surgery would influence the incidence of anesthetic adverse events (AEs).

Methods

Clinical observations reported in a quality improvement database were categorized into unlike AEs that reflected (ane) mistake, (two) damage, and (3) other AEs (fault or harm could non be determined) and were analyzed for effects related to start hour of care.

Results

Every bit expected, at that place were differences in the charge per unit of AEs depending on start hour of intendance. Compared with a reference start hour of 7 am, other AEs were more frequent for cases starting during the 3 pm and four pm hours (p<0.0001). Mail hoc inspection of data revealed that the predicted probability increased from a low of 1.0% at 9 am to a high of 4.2% at 4 pm. The two most common effect types (pain management and postoperative nausea and vomiting) may exist primary determinants of these effects.

Conclusions

Our results bespeak that clinical outcomes may be unlike for patients anesthetized at the cease of the work day compared with the outset of the day. Although this may result from patient related factors, medical intendance commitment factors such equally instance load, fatigue, and intendance transitions may also be influencing the charge per unit of anesthetic AEs for cases that start in the late afternoon.

Keywords: fatigue, work schedules, fourth dimension of day, agin events, transitions

Health care is a 24 hour a day functioning. Factors such as time on the job, effects of cyclic rhythms, and problems related to demand, scheduling, and staffing may all have an outcome on patient care over the course of a solar day. Research has revealed that human performance is adversely affected by sleep arrears, circadian rhythm disruption, and long work hours, leading to decrements in cerebral and psychomotor functioning and increased risk of accidents.^{one ,2 ,3 ,4 ,5 ,half-dozen} Fatigue is believed to exist a greater problem in transportation accidents than drugs and alcohol combined, contributing to fifteen–20% of all transportation accidents.^{half dozen} Surveys, laboratory and simulator studies, and evaluation of clinical data accept revealed damaging effects of fatigue, both for the patient and the healthcare worker.^{seven ,viii ,9 ,ten ,11 ,12 ,xiii ,14} Decisions virtually scheduling, demand, and staffing can consequence in variations in workload over the course of the twenty-four hour period that may exist reflected in care. In addition, staffing and scheduling decisions may create specific times of day that are associated with potentially risky events such as intendance transitions.^{xv ,16 ,17 ,18}

Inquiry evaluating relationships between time of 24-hour interval and clinical performance, as defined by the occurrence of adverse events (AEs) or patient outcomes, is limited. In anesthesia, this type of inquiry is partially hindered past a relatively low frequency of agin outcomes.¹⁹ One exception is a prospective study of cases of unintended dural puncture in obstetric epidural anesthesia that identified a greater risk of unintended dural puncture for epidural placement performed at night than during daytime.²⁰ At that place is too little research evaluating clinical operation over multiple times of 24-hour interval. Several studies accept compared night performance with day performance^{7 ,20} and sleep deprived practitioners with well rested practitioners,^{9 ,ten ,11 ,12 ,thirteen ,21 ,22 ,23 ,24 ,25} but few have considered potential time of day effects such as the early on morning and afternoon circadian troughs or start and end of shift.

We suspect that clinical performance may vary throughout the day due to effects of fourth dimension on the task, circadian lows, and times of transition. Periods that include circadian lows (3–five am, 3–5 pm) and transfers of patient care from one anesthesia team to another (7 am, 4–vi pm) are times of twenty-four hours that may exist related to qualitative changes in operating room performance and the incidence of AEs. Identifying periods of relatively impaired operating room functioning is an important step in applying human factors principles to the improvement of patient care in this surroundings.

The Duke Academy Medical Eye Department of Anesthesiology maintains a perioperative database that serves as a patient record and as a tool for assessing and improving quality of care. Specific clinical and administrative events are documented in the database as "quality improvement" (QI) events. These data provide an opportunity for a retrospective analysis of the incidence of AEs with respect to time of day. The main objective of this evaluation was to determine whether time of day affects the number of AEs that occur perioperatively. We hypothesized that fourth dimension of day of surgery would influence the incidence of anesthetic adverse events (AEs).

Methods

The Saturn Information System is a perioperative database and charting tool through which anesthesia providers and perioperative nurses electronically record and track a patient's clinical progress. The Saturn database includes patient demographic data, surgical and coldhearted plans, and patient notes, including QI event descriptors and provider entered text. The choice of QI event descriptors and the addition of comments are under the discretion of the anesthesia care squad (cocky‐reports) in the operating room and preoperative and postoperative care units.

This study is based on data from 130 912 operating room cases recorded in Saturn between 1 May 2000 and 4 August 2004. The data include all anesthetic procedures completed at Duke University Medical Center during that time, including both inpatient and ambulatory procedures for adult and pediatric patients. All data were de‐identified before transfer to the research team and were therefore exempt from institutional review.

The independent variable we selected to assess the effect of fourth dimension of mean solar day on the incidence of AEs was the get-go hour of care. The following characteristics of the patient, procedure, and operating room environs were expected to touch on the incidence of AEs and were included in our analyses equally covariates:

• Age of patient (in months).

• Sex of patient.

• Global assessment of patient health (American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical risk nomenclature).

• Emergency or not‐emergency/scheduled procedure.

• Elapsing of anesthesia care (in minutes).

• Complexity of the procedure (ASA base units—a measure of example difficulty used for billing purposes).

• Activeness level of the OR suite (number of operating rooms running).

Although of interest, details such every bit the experience level of the anesthesia provider, the case load of the attending anesthesiologist, and the makeup of the care squad could not exist determined from the de‐identified information set.

Response variables for our analyses were anesthetic AEs. These were determined from the self‐reported QI events recorded in the perioperative database. Based on Leape'southward definition of preventable and non‐preventable AEs,²⁶ records that point an error or failure to adhere to a standard of care can be considered preventable AEs. Nosotros originally planned to separately analyze events which may exist preventable, events which cause some harm to the patient, and non‐preventable events. All the same, due to the nature of the database, we were not able to definitively distinguish preventable and not‐preventable events. We were, notwithstanding, able to separate the data into iii categories of events. These included error (preventable events), harm (events which resulted in harm to patients), and other AEs. We included the category of "other AEs" to classify adverse events that could non exist definitively described as preventable or causing harm based on the information available, only were probable to exist associated with error, harm, or an increased risk of either error or harm. Detailed definitions of the categories used by the research squad are provided in table 1​ .

Table 1 Definitions of event categories

Error	An error is defined using an adaptation of the definition posed by The Australian Quango for Condom and Quality in Health Care Shared Meanings project27 (Merry, personal advice, 2004):
	"The failure to complete an action every bit intended or the unintentional use of a wrong plan to achieve an aim."
	This definition includes both errors due to a deficiency in knowledge or a failure in judgment or conclusion making (e.g. "mistakes" or "errors of judgment") and errors which are an incorrect execution of a correct action sequence (due east.1000. "slips" or "technical errors"). Errors may occur by doing the wrong matter (commission) or by declining to practice the correct thing (omission).27
	Because it is hard to determine the intent of a practitioner, we will assume the "standard of intendance" as the underlying assumption of intent. Therefore, any incident that represents a difference from "standard of intendance", whether it is an mistake of judgment or a technical mistake, will be classified as an fault. For our purposes, "standard of intendance" is defined in accordance with NC statutes as care that is "… in accord with the standards of practice among members of the aforementioned health intendance profession with similar training and feel situated in the same or similar communities…" (1975, twond Sess, c 977, s 4).
Harm	Harm includes any untoward medical occurrence in the patient that is non reasonably expected or common, based on the process being conducted. The instance of harm may or may not have a causal relationship with handling. Harm includes any unfavorable incident or unintended sign (including an abnormal laboratory finding), symptom, or illness temporally associated with the procedure for which the patient is receiving anesthetic care, whether or not considered related to the procedure. This includes emotional distress, psychological trauma, invasion of privacy, embarrassment, loss of social condition or employment, or any economic touch on considered related to the conduct of the procedure. This category does not include delays of an administrative nature (come across "Delay" beneath). Our definition is like to an incident of "Harm" or "Loss" for the patient, as defined by the Shared Meanings projection:27
	"Damage: Death, affliction, injury, suffering, and/or disability experienced by a person" (see loss)
	"Loss: Any negative consequence, including financial, experienced by a person(s) or organisations(s)".
Other AE	This category is included for other perioperative events that may have some association with error or harm merely do non provide sufficient testify of either error or harm based on the above definitions. This category includes, for example, events that are sometimes due to error or sometimes event in harm; events that sometimes occur concurrently with either error or harm; or events that may be associated with an increased risk for error or harm. This category does not include delays of an administrative nature (see "Delay" below).
Delay	This category is included to track administrative delays. These include events that filibuster the start of the process or the transfer of the patient. Examples include: late inflow of the surgeon, anesthesiologist, other intendance team members or the patient; readiness issues associated with equipment, operating room, or other care units; and lateness of laboratory results or other necessary information. This category is Non intended to reflect changes in process length or anesthesia care associated with other perioperative events of the categories error, damage, or other AEs as defined higher up.

When QI events are entered into the database at the point of care by a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA), anesthesia resident, or staff anesthesiologist, the practitioner selects from a list of perioperative events and also has an opportunity to enter boosted text describing the QI event. Five experienced anesthesiologists reviewed the QI event labels available in the database and came to a consensus (in a face to face meeting) regarding whether each QI event label represented fault, harm, or other AE (table ii​ ). The console of reviewers likewise identified the QI events that represented administrative delays because we believed that there may be an association between delays and AEs. We validated the consignment of QI events into these categories by comparing the automated classification by consequence labels with manual nomenclature by 4 experienced anesthesiologists (JT, JM, KG, MSS) using both the issue labels chosen by the practitioner and associated text. Data from 148 cases showed that, for the largest portion of the events (83%), two or 3 of the reviewers fabricated no change to the classification that would have been made based on the effect label alone. In addition, the reviewers very rarely agreed to change from an agin event category to no event or delay (4 cases, 2.vi%) and they never agreed to change from either the error or harm category to the less definitive other AE category. Based on these results, we concluded that an analysis of the data based on categorization by QI issue labels was unlikely to attain different results than an analysis that included expert review of each instance that independent text descriptions.

Table 2 QI events assigned to AE categories

Mistake events	122 Delayed recognition esophageal intubation126 Unintentional extubation133 Delayed recognition bronchial intubation	173 Wrong medication/wrong dose177 Inadequate preoperative cess
Impairment events	114 Unplanned outpatient admission115 Unplanned access to ICU121 Inability to intubate124 Trauma to airway125 Damage to teeth131 Meaning hypoxemia134 Astringent bronchospasm135 Pneumothorax136 Pulmonary aspiration146 Confirmed myocardial infarction147 Pulmonary edema/CHF148 Cardiac arrest152 Excessive block153 Adverse consequence following block155 Post dural puncture headache161 Prolonged sedation162 Prolonged neuromuscular blockade163 Primal nervous organisation complication164 Peripheral neurologic deficit	165 Patient awareness (unintentional)171 Significant hyperthermia172 Significant (unintended) hyperthermia174 Drug/transfusion reaction176 Prolonged nausea/vomiting191 Eye injury192 Peel/soft tissue injury193 Death195 Other injury/catastrophe204 Emergency tracheotomy or cricothyrotomy211 Wound infection212 Other infection/sepsis213 Deep vein thrombosis214 Pulmonary thromboembolism215 Postoperative oliguria/anuria216 New postoperative need for dialysis417 Postoperative nausea and airsickness
Other adverse events	123 Laryngospasm127 Unanticipated difficult intubation128 Other airway132 Significant hypercapnia137 Other respiratory141 Significant hypertension142 Significant hypotension143 Significant tachycardia144 Other major arrhythmia145 Suspected myocardial ischemia149 Other cardiovascular	151 Failed/inadequate block154 Unintentional dural puncture156 Other regional166 Other neurological175 Trouble with vascular access181 Equipment trouble (describe)194 Staff injury (describe)217 Other postoperative complications416 Hurting management418 Failed belch criteria808 Unclassified (delight describe)
Delay	301 No/incomplete surgical consent302 No green sheet (no preoperative assessment paperwork)303 Late arrival of patient304 Waiting for results305 Fourth dimension for regional anesthesia306 OR non ready307 Surgeon unavailable308 Anesthesia unavailable309 Anesthesia detained in PACU310 Other reason for filibuster (specify)401 No assigned intermediate bed402 No assigned SD bed403 No assigned ICU bed	404 Room not ready: occupied405 Room not ready: not clean406 No transporter407 Floor nurse unavailable408 PACU nurse albeit 2d patient409 Waiting for surgeon: orders410 Waiting for surgeon: MO1B (waiting for surgeon to sign postoperative care unit of measurement patient release)411 Waiting for surgeon: RX (prescription)412 Waiting for surgeon: other413 Waiting for anesthesiologist414 Waiting for lab results415 10‐ray to exist taken or read419 Delayed belch: other

ICU, intensive care unit; CHF, congestive eye failure; OR, operating room; PACU, postoperative intendance unit; SD, stepdown.

Assay of data

Because of the binary nature of the AE response variables, the data were subjected to multiple logistic regression analysis.²⁸ The multiple regression model included beginning 60 minutes of care as an independent variable with the patient and procedural factors included as covariates. In guild to minimize the degrees of freedom in the statistical model, the ASA physical status nomenclature was reduced to 2 categories of depression risk (ASA classification i or 2) and high risk (ASA classification iii, 4, or 5). Hr of twenty-four hours was treated as a categorical variable equally were ASA status, sex, and emergency (yes or no). Age in months, surgery duration in minutes, and surgery complexity in ASA base units were treated as continuous variables.

Since there were fewer night fourth dimension cases, initial review of the information suggested that power would be maximized past grouping events into viii three hour intervals over a full 24 hour day. We as well conducted a separate hour past hour comparing of the non‐emergency (scheduled) procedures over the 12 hours of the regular work day (vi am to 6 pm). In the 12 60 minutes analysis, the category of fault was excluded due to an insufficient number of observations.

The response variables for four separate analyses were (1) harm, (2) error, (3) other AEs, and (4) delays. A review of the frequency of specific event types revealed a proportionally high frequency of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) in the harm category (35% of harm events) and a proportionally high frequency of pain management issues in the other AEs category (49% of other AEs). Post hoc analyses therefore included analyses of the response variables PONV and hurting management. Nosotros also analyzed harm with PONV events excluded and other AEs with pain management events excluded. Our goal in this assay was to understand the degree to which these specific event types may be driving the overall results for harm and other AEs.

To farther describe significant fourth dimension of solar day effects, comparisons were made using odds ratio estimates. We selected the kickoff 60 minutes time menstruation with the highest frequency of starts (seven am hour or half dozen–9 am fourth dimension flow) as the reference point for all comparisons.

Results

Cases with missing showtime or end times were excluded from the analysis dataset, reducing the sample from 130 912 to 107 620 cases. The frequency distribution and means of the covariates are shown in table iii​ , and the frequencies of all case offset times for each start 60 minutes are shown in fig 1​ . The dataset was farther reduced to 90 159 cases for the multiple regression assay because of missing covariate data. From this dataset, the post-obit frequencies were observed for the response measures:

Tabular array 3 Covariate proportions (for categorical variables) and ways (for continuous variables)

Variable	Proportion	Mean (SD)
Emergency	eight% emergency
Sex	52% female
ASA physical status	62% low hazard (ASA 1 and 2)
Age		48 (23) years
Duration		two.7 (2.0) hours
Complexity		6.7 (iii.nine) ASA base units
OR suite action level		34 (7) OR rooms in functioning

Effigy one Frequency of case starts throughout the day (daily averages assume 365 day/twelvemonth operation).

• Mistake: 31

• Damage (including PONV events): 667

• Other AEs (including hurting management events): 1995

• Delays: 9497

• PONV: 277

• Hurting management: 1102

As expected, the multiple logistic regression analysis revealed a number of significant effects of covariates on AEs and delays in both the 24 hour analysis of all cases and the work day analysis of non‐emergency cases. The results for the 24 hour analysis are shown in tabular array iv​ .

Tabular array iv Effects of covariates on adverse events and delays in the 24 hour analysis of all surgical cases

Increased probability of an AE associated with:	For the post-obit event categories:
Higher patient historic period	Other AE†, Delay†
Female sexual practice	Damage†, Other AE†
Loftier ASA condition	Harm*, Other AE†, Filibuster†
Longer case duration	Error*, Harm†, Other AE†, Delay†
Emergency cases	Delay†
Higher complexity cases	Other AE†, Delay†
Greater number of OR rooms in functioning	Damage**, Other AE†, Filibuster†

*p<0.05, **p<0.01, or †p<0.001 (Wald χ² test).

In the multiple logistic regression analysis over a 24 hour day, the incidence of other AEs was significantly influenced by the three hour time period in which surgery began (p<0.0001). The predicted probability of other AEs (with all covariates held constant) is shown in fig 2​ . Visual inspection of the graph suggests a higher probability of AEs in the late afternoon and early on evening hours than in morning and early afternoon cases. Odds ratio estimates confirm the afternoon effect, indicating that cases that began between 3–6 pm had a college probability of other AEs than cases that started during the reference time of six–9 am (point gauge i.48, 95% Wald confidence limit 1.19 to ane.84). Odds ratio estimates also signal that, compared with the reference time of 6–9 am, at that place was a lower probability of events for cases starting later in the morning (9 am–noon) (point judge 0.68, confidence limit 0.68 to 0.85) or in the early afternoon (apex–three pm) (bespeak approximate 0.88, confidence limit 0.77 to 0.99).

Figure two Predicted probability of other AEs in 3 hour time increments throughout the day. Notes: (1) Fault bars point upper and lower bounds of 95% confidence intervals. (two) Filled circles stand for data points that are significantly different from the reference time of 6–nine am (represented by a cross). (3) Assumes covariates prepare to male sex, low ASA concrete status rating, non‐emergency, elapsing 143 minutes, number of OR rooms 34, ASA base of operations units 6.

Analysis of hourly starts of scheduled cases over the workday (six am–v pm) revealed significant effects of commencement time for damage (p<0.01) and other AEs (p<0.0001). Considering the effects on damage, odds ratio estimates revealed significant differences from the reference start time of vii am for the 8 am hour only (point estimate 0.62, confidence limit 0.45 to 0.85). However, visual inspection of the predicted probability of harm (fig three​ ) reveals trends toward an increase in events for cases that outset in the late afternoon. For example, the predicted probability of harm is three times higher for cases that start at 3 pm (1.0%) than for those starting at 8 am (0.iii%). Compared with the 7 am reference fourth dimension, odds ratio estimates suggest trends toward a greater number of events for the 2 pm and 3 pm start hours (2 pm betoken estimate 1.38, confidence limits 0.97 to one.98; 3 pm signal estimate 1.53, confidence limits 0.98 to 2.xl).

Effigy 3 Predicted probability of harm and other AEs for scheduled cases over the work 24-hour interval (six am–5 pm). Notes: (1) Error bars indicate upper and lower bounds of 95% confidence intervals. (two) Filled symbols correspond information points that are significantly different from the reference fourth dimension of 7 am (represented by a cross). (3) Assumes covariates fix to male person sex, low ASA concrete status rating, non‐emergency, duration 143 minutes, number of OR rooms 34, ASA base units 6.

Considering the effects on other AEs, the predicted probability of an event indicated an increased risk for cases starting in the tardily afternoon (fig 3​ ). Odds ratio estimates revealed a higher probability of other AEs for cases beginning in the 3 pm and 4 pm hours than for those beginning at the reference hour of 7 am (3 pm betoken estimate 1.49, confidence limit 1.15 to 1.93; 4 pm point estimate 1.68, confidence limit ane.16 to 2.42). Odds ratio estimates besides revealed that cases starting in the 6 am hour and all hours between 8 am and 1 pm had a lower probability of an event than cases starting in the 7am hour (with the strongest issue seen at 9 am with a signal estimate of 0.58 and confidence limits of 0.48 to 0.70). In examining specific data points for the size of the event, the predicted probability of other AEs increased from a low of one.0% for cases starting at nine am to a high of 4.2% for cases starting at 4 pm.

Considering of the loftier proportion of pain management events in the other AEs data gear up and PONV events in the harm dataset, we analyzed these specific events for time of day effects every bit post hoc analyses. The analyses revealed significant effects for both hurting direction (p<0.0001) and PONV (p<0.0001) in both the 24 hour and piece of work mean solar day analyses. For the most function, these effects mirrored the effects seen in the full general analyses of other AEs and impairment. There was an increased probability of pain management events for cases starting in the tardily afternoon (2, 3, and 4 pm) compared with 7 am. At that place was besides a decreased probability of hurting management for cases starting in the mid morning (eight am–noon) compared with 7 am. For PONV, there was an increased probability of events for cases starting at 2 pm compared with 7 am and a decreased probability of events in the belatedly morning (8–10 am) compared with 7 am.

For the work day assay, removal of pain management and PONV events from the other AEs and harm datasets reduced the strength of the time of twenty-four hours effects such that they were no longer significant (p = 0.13 for harm; p = 0.18 for other AEs. Time of day had a significant outcome on other AEs over a 24 hr day (p<0.05). In this example, the midday probability of an event (9 am–noon and noon–3 pm) was lower than the reference time of 6–9 am. In general, the overall rates of occurrence with these high frequency events excluded were very low (effectually 0.2% for harm and 0.half dozen% for other AEs) and the confidence intervals were very large (of the order of 1.5 to 2.5% with, for example, a indicate estimate of 1.00 and confidence limits of 0.59 to one.71 at 6–9 pm).

In both the 24 hr analysis and the work day assay, delays were significantly affected by 60 minutes of twenty-four hours (p<0.0001). The predicted probabilities of delays from both analyses are shown in fig 4​ . Delays announced to increase substantially over the work solar day. Predicted probability increases from just over v% in the morning hours to approximately 30% in the late afternoon.

Figure 4 Predicted probability of delays past time of twenty-four hours. Notes: (i) Mistake bars indicate upper and lower bounds of 95% conviction intervals. (2) Filled symbols represent information points that are significantly different from the reference time (represented by a cross). (3) Assumes covariates set to male sex, low ASA concrete status rating, non‐emergency, elapsing 143 minutes, number of OR rooms 34, ASA base units 6.

Discussion

The results of our analyses back up our hypothesis that AEs are influenced by the time of day of surgery. Nosotros identified a small but significant increment in AEs in the early morning compared with late morning and early afternoon hours. This upshot was robust throughout a number of dissimilar analyses and upshot types. We also identified a meaning and sizable increase in AEs in the tardily afternoon compared with early on morning. Post hoc analyses revealed that this effect may have been driven primarily by the most frequent events of PONV and pain management.

In addition to the significant furnishings of AEs, there was a significant and sizeable increase in authoritative delays in the late afternoon. This suggests that there may exist a human relationship between administrative delays and AEs that requires further investigation.

There are a number of reasons why AEs may occur more ofttimes at the end of the twenty-four hour period, including (1) stop of mean solar day fatigue, (2) afternoon circadian lows, (3) care transitions, (4) modify in makeup of the intendance team, (5) changes in instance load, (6) physiological changes in the patient, or (7) other unrecognized factors. Some of these same factors might also be relevant as an explanation for the increased AE rate in the early morning.

These data were collected at our medical heart where all anesthesia intendance is supervised by a faculty physician anesthesiologist and delivered primarily past either an anesthesia resident or a CRNA. The attending anesthesiologist may supervise up to 4 CRNAs or upward to two residents in carve up operating rooms. The piece of work twenty-four hour period generally begins betwixt six and 7 am and ends between 3 and 6 pm for most attendings and residents. However, each day several attendings stay later to finish cases or remain on a late telephone call schedule that ends between 6 and nine pm. Both attendings and residents work a singled-out night call schedule. CRNAs work 12 60 minutes shifts of 7 am to 7 pm, 11 am to 11 pm, or 7 pm to 7 am. Scheduling details are visually depicted in fig 5​ .

Effigy 5 Approximate Knuckles University Medical Eye anesthesia staff schedules over a 24 hour day. Notation: Medium grey areas correspond flexible start and end boundaries also as times of overlapping coverage and transition.

Because of this scheduling organisation, times of transition in anesthesia care are nigh probable to occur around vi–eight am and 3–7 pm. Changes in the makeup of the care team may besides occur during these times. In particular, a greater fraction of the case load may exist covered past CRNAs rather than past residents during the 3–7 pm fourth dimension frame. There also may be increases in case load per attention physician associated with the three–seven pm time frame every bit supervision transitions to fewer late call anesthesiologists. Our finding of a substantial increment in delays in the late afternoon also suggests a potential trouble of workload at this time. In dissimilarity to the 6–viii am time of transition when well rested anesthesiologists go far to begin the mean solar day, physicians supervising cases during the 3–vii pm transition times are usually physicians who are standing cases, taking over new cases, and who began their piece of work day betwixt 6 and seven am.

Arbous et al ²⁹ identified specific problems associated with both transitions and the makeup of the patient care squad that affect postoperative mortality and coma. They institute an increased risk of perioperative decease associated with intraoperative change of i anesthesiologist past another. In addition, the risk of severe morbidity and mortality was reduced by (i) direct availability of an anesthesiologist (via intercom rather than phone or pager), (2) the presence of a full time (versus part time) coldhearted nurse, and (3) the presence of two individuals at emergence and termination of anesthesia. While there are some relevant differences in the model for anesthesia intendance in the United States and Europe—for instance, differences in training and responsibilities of anesthesia nurses and requirements for anesthesiologists to exist nowadays at critical points such equally induction and emergence—it is probable that, equally case load increases, anesthesiologists may be faced with difficult choices about where their presence is most needed or when they should telephone call for help.

This study has some limitations. Firstly, it is based on non‐bearding self‐reports. Although the database is used every bit the official perioperative record which requires providers to be diligent in reporting significant events, they may be biased in how they certificate events or in their decisions whether or not to report minor incidents. They may be more likely to select QI event labels that describe the event more generally or are seen as patient related events rather than labels that suggest clinician error and signal a cause or possible arraign. There besides may be an increment in documentation associated with cases in which in that location are transitions, either for purposes of providing key information to oncoming providers or for providing a clear historical record of whether events occurred before or later the transition.

Secondly, a reduction of over 30% in our sample size due to missing data calls into question the robustness of the database for the purposes of these analyses. Although we were unable to identify specific causes of missing data, we accept no reason to believe that there are whatever systematic biases associated with missing data that would impact the results of our study.

Lastly, nosotros were unable to clearly determine which events were preventable. This limits our ability to decide whether or not the time of twenty-four hour period furnishings have underlying causes that can be controlled. For example, circadian furnishings on the patient such as changes in the sensitivity to pain^thirty or propensity for PONV could partly explain our results.

Nigh studies on the effects of fatigue on clinical outcomes have focused on sleep impecuniousness or disrupted circadian rhythms—for example, looking at post call effects^{15 ,21} or comparing night time with daytime performance.^{7 ,twenty} We are non aware of any other studies that take revealed decrements in clinical outcome associated with the beginning or stop of the piece of work day. This report presents evidence of a significant and sizeable increase in the incidence of coldhearted AEs in the late afternoon hours. It is unclear whether the increase in AEs was due to (1) bug related to increased case load and delays at these times, (2) effects of caregiver fatigue later many hours on the job, (3) bug that occur because of transitions, (four) increased reporting during times of transitions, or (five) other unidentified factors such as changes in the makeup of the anesthesia intendance team or physiological changes in the patients. Future enquiry should focus on identifying the causes of increases in anesthetic AEs in the tardily afternoon. Later these causes are identified, strategies to reduce or eliminate these events should exist evaluated.

Acknowledgements

The authors thank the APSF Scientific Evaluation Committee for their input regarding our methods and ongoing enthusiasm for this projection; Richard Adrian (Duke Wellness Technology Solutions Perioperative Information Systems Group) for his support in retrieving the perioperative data; and Terry Breen (Duke Academy Medical Center, Section of Anesthesiology) for his assistance in interpreting the quality improvement information and participation in categorizing QI events.

Abbreviations

AE - adverse result

PONV - postoperative nausea and vomiting

QI - quality comeback

Footnotes

This inquiry was funded by a grant from the Anesthesia Patient Rubber Foundation (APSF), Indianapolis, IN, USA.

Competing interests: none declared.

Preliminary results of this project were presented at the Healthcare Systems Ergonomics and Patient Safety Briefing in Florence, Italian republic on 1 Apr 2005 (Wright MC, Andregg BC, Marker JB, et al. Effects of time of day and surgery elapsing on adverse events in anaesthesia. In: Tartaglia R, Bagnara S, Bellandi T, eds. International Conference on Healthcare Systems Ergonomics and Patient Condom. Taylor & Francis, 2005, 377–eighty).

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