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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
versão On-line ISSN 2078-5135
versão impressa ISSN 0256-9574
SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.106 no.5 Pretoria Mai. 2016
http://dx.doi.org/10.7196/samj.2016.v106i5.10917
ERRATUM
Consciously cutting to the bone of SA's surgical/anasthetic delivery
In the Izindaba story entitled 'Consciously cutting to the bone of SA's surgical/anaesthetic delivery' (http://dx.doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2016.v106i2.10526), which appeared in the February 2016 SAMJ (Vol. 106, No. 2, p. 134), Prof. Christina Lundgren, Clinical Head of Anaesthesia at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, cited the worldwide anaesthetic mortality rate as being 1%. The South African Society of Anaesthesiologists (SASA) has pointed out that such mortality rates vary widely owing to a number of factors, including the number of anaesthesiologists available, and are therefore dependent on the specific country conditions and too varied to be stated so specifically. SASA states that in South Africa the rate of deaths due to anaesthesia (including both obstetric and non-obstetric) is 1 in 10 000.