Korean J Anesthesiol.  1977 Dec;10(2):163-168.

Cardiac Arrest in the Operating Room

• Lee CS
• Park HH
• Ju KR
• Suh BT
• Ahn CK

Abstract

This is a report of cardiac arrests which occurred in the operating room of National Medical Center from Jan. 1, 1970 to Dec. 31, 1976. All kinds of operations were performed in this hospital, butlopen heart surgery was excluded from this study. During this period 22, 825 surgical operations were done and 74 cardiac arrests occurred among them. Overall incidence of cardiac arrest was 1: 308 (0. 32%) and 43% of cardiac arrests were successfully resuseitated.

MeSH Terms

Heart Arrest*
Incidence
Operating Rooms*
Thoracic Surgery