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Board advisors press for better anesthesia trend analysis; debate tracking of ‘portable’ services
Summary
Board clinicians and staff reviewed sedation- and anesthesia-related complaint data and asked staff for clearer trend visuals and more granular fields to identify anesthesia-related problems and whether providers were delivering 'portable' services.
Members of the board’s anesthesia-related advisory discussions spent an extended portion of the Feb. 20 meeting reviewing a staff spreadsheet summarizing complaints involving licensees who provide sedation or anesthesia.
"I like what I see here," said Doctor Robert McNeal, urging the committee to pursue trend analysis. He added that the format staff provided will make it easier to spot patterns over time. Staff members responded that a set of bar graphs and annualized summaries could help the committee identify whether adverse outcomes were clustered by anesthesia modality (local anesthetic, nitrous oxide, moderate sedation, general anesthesia) or by practice context.
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