USE OF ANAESTHETICS.
THE DEATH-RATE INCREASING. POSITION IN DOMINION. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Waimate, Last Night. Official figures quoted at a meeting of the South Canterbury British Medical Association showed that the Dominion deathrate due to anaesthetics increased doubly in 1921 on previous years, and increased at a greater ratio during part of 1922. Of these only a negligible proportion died under ether, and such were critically ill before operating. The meeting decided to recommend the Health Department and the British Medical Association to keep a record of every Dominion hospital case where anaesthetics are administered; that medical assessors should sit with coroners inquiring into deaths arising from anaesthetics; and that the anaesthetics used be analysed. It was also decided to enquire into the university instruction, to ascertain whether the use of ether or chloroform is recommended.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1922, Page 5
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136USE OF ANAESTHETICS. Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1922, Page 5
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