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Confidential enquiries into anaesthetic deaths
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The purpose of confidential enquiries into anaesthetic deaths has been to identify the cause of death and find areas of substandard care that might be amenable to correction. The enquiries with which anaesthetists in the UK have been most familiar with are the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths (CEMD), the Confidential Enquiries into Stillbirths and Deaths in Infancy (CESDI), and the National Confidential Enquiries into Perioperative Deaths (NCEPOD, now an acronym for National Confidential Enquiries into Perioperative Outcomes and Death). There is also a Confidential Enquiry into suicides and homicides. The organizations of CEMD and CESDI were taken over in 2003 by the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal and Child
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