[Annual report of perioperative mortality and morbidity for the year 2000 at certified training hospitals of Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists: with a special reference to anesthetic methods--report of the Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists Committee on Operating Room Safety].

The Committee on Operating Room Safety of Japan Society of Anesthesiologists (JSA) sends annually confidential questionnaires of perioperative mortality and morbidity (cardiac arrest, severe hypotension, severe hypoxia) to Certified Training Hospitals of JSA. This report is a special reference to anesthetic methods in perioperative mortality and morbidity in 2000. Five hundreds and twenty hospitals reported perioperative mortality and morbidity referred to anesthetic methods and total numbers of reported cases were 910,007.