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Journal Articles

  1. Morray JP, Geiduschek JM, Caplan RA, Posner KL, Gild WM, Cheney FW: A comparison of pediatric and adult anesthesia closed malpractice claims. Anesthesiology 78:461-467, 1993. [Abstract, NLM PubMed Link]
    1. This is a review of 238 anesthesia related closed claims in the pediatric age group in a total database of 2400 claims. The mechanism of injury was much more apt to be of respiratory origin in the pediatric as opposed to the adult claims.

  2. Jimenez N, Posner KL, Cheney FW, Caplan RA, Lee LA, Domino KB. An update on pediatric anesthesia liability: a closed claims analysis. Anesth Analg. 2007 Jan;104(1):147-53. [NLM PubMed Link]. See also: Pediatrics

    1. Death and brain damage remained the dominant injuries in pediatric anesthesia malpractice claims in the 1990s. Cardiovascular events joined respiratory events as the major sources of liability.

Newsletter Articles

  1. Morray JP: Pediatric Perioperative Cardiac Arrest Registry. ASA Newsletter 59(6):13, 1995. [Full Text] See also: Cardiovascular System
  2. Morray JP: Pediatric perioperative cardiac arrest registry: An update. ASA Newsletter 60(6):26-28, 1996. [Full Text] See also: Cardiovascular System
  3. Geiduschek JM: Registry Offers Insight on Preventing Cardiac Arrests in Children. ASA Newsletter 62(6):16-18, 1998. [Full Text]
  4. Jimenez N: Trends in Pediatric Anesthesia Malpractice Claims Over the Last Three Decades. ASA Newsletter 69(6): 8-9, 12, 2005. [Full Text; PDF Version]

Conference Presentations and ASA Abstracts

  1. Jimenez N, Posner KL, Domino KB, Cheney FW: Trends in Pediatric Anesthesia Malpractice Claims over Three Decades.Anesthesiology 103: A1309, 2005. [Full Text]
  2. Davies JM, Posner KL, Cheney FW, Domino KB: Anesthesia Malpractice Claims for Newborn Brain Injury in the 1990s. Anesthesiology 105: A7, 2006. [Full Text]