simple mortality question

[Rhon1991]

When you preop adult pts, what percentage do you quote for death from general anesthesia?

Thanks!

[smiling_ru]

If you are interested this is the link to the IOM report. The oft referenced statistics are on page 32. While there are other references listed those did not look at morbidity/mortality or were even smaller studies(less than 100 patients).

http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:u8KEhpA2Yy8J:www.nap.edu/openbook/0309068371/html/+iom+to+err+is+human&hl=en&ie=UTF-8