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Orthopaedic surgery – can we make it safer?

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Bladon B.
In: BEVA - Annual Congress - Birmingham, 2018 by British Equine Veterinary Association
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SEP 15, 2018
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Equine perioperative mortality is regularly held out to be disgracefully high. In 1995 Johnston published the preliminary results of the confidential enquiry of perioperative equine fatalities (CEPEF), which established the time-honoured figure of 0.9% [1]. Recently Dugdale published an anaesthesia or recovery-associated mortality of 1.1% for all cases, including colics and emergencies, of which 71% were caused by fractures ...

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Bladon, B. (2020) “Orthopaedic surgery – can we make it safer?”, BEVA - Annual Congress - Birmingham, 2018. Available at: https://www.ivis.org/library/beva/beva-annual-congress-birmingham-2018/orthopaedic-surgery-–-can-we-make-it-safer (Accessed: 12 September 2024).

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Donnington Grove Veterinary Group, Donnington, Berkshire, RG14 2JB, UK.

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