Operating Room Fires

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Operating Room Fires

Fire safety and emergency evacuation guidelines for intensive care units and operating theatres: for use in the event of fire, flood, power cut, oxygen supply failure, noxious gas, structural collapse or other critical incidents Guidelines from the Association of Anaesthetists and the Intensive Care Society

Practice Advisory for the Prevention and Management of Operating Room Fires: An Updated Report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Operating Room Fires

Scoring fire risk for surgical patients

APSF: Fire Safety Video

Akhtar N, Ansar F, Baig MS, Abbas A. Airway fires during surgery: management and prevention. J Anaesthesiol Clin Pharmacol. 2016 Jan-Mar; 32(1): 109-11. PMID: 27006554

Simpson JI, Wolf GL, Rosen A, Krespi Y, Schiff GA. The oxygen and nitrous oxide indices of flammability of endotracheal tubes determined by laser ignition. Laryngoscope. 1991 Sep; 101(9): 981-4. PMID: 1886447

Operating Room Fire Prevention: Video in Clinical Anesthesia Prevención de Incendios en la Sala de Operaciones: Vídeo en Anestesia Clínica

Intraperitoneal fire during abdominal surgeries: ‘Fire in the belly’ not always a good thing!

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Open Anesthesia: Surgical Fires

Lyons C, Jonsson Fagerlund M. Airway fires during use of high-flow nasal oxygen: a cause for concern. British journal of anaesthesia 2025;134(4):893-897. (In eng). DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2024.12.021.

Strupp KM, Mandler T, Papazian L, et al. The Use of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia's Pedi Crisis 2.0 Mobile Application as an Educational Assessment Tool for Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellows: A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Multi-Center Study. Anesthesiology 2025 (In eng). DOI: 10.1097/aln.0000000000005499.

Mehta SP, Bhananker SM, Posner KL, Domino KB. Operating room fires: a closed claims analysis. Anesthesiology 2013;118(5):1133-9. (In eng). DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e31828afa7b.

Kaddoum RN, Chidiac EJ, Zestos MM, Ahmed Z. Electrocautery-induced fire during adenotonsillectomy: report of two cases. J Clin Anesth 2006; 18:129-31

Jones TS, Black IH, Robinson TN, Jones EL. Operating Room Fires. Anesthesiology 2019;130(3):492-501. (In eng). DOI: 10.1097/aln.0000000000002598.

Standards UbtCo, Parameters P, Chicago I, et al. Practice Advisory for the Prevention and Management of Operating Room Fires: An Updated Report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Operating Room Fires. Anesthesiology 2013;118(2):271-290. DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e31827773d2.

Culp WCJ, Muse KW. Preventing Operating Room Fires: Impact of Surgical Drapes on Oxygen Contamination of the Operative Field. Journal of patient safety 2021;17(8):e1846-e1850. DOI: 10.1097/pts.0000000000000665.

Remz M, Luria I, Gravenstein M, et al. Prevention of airway fires: do not overlook the expired oxygen concentration. Anesthesia and analgesia 2013;117(5):1172-6. (In eng). DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e318298a692.

SURGICAL AND OPERATING ROOM (OR) FIRES – A PREVENTABLE PROBLEM. APSF website. https://www.apsf.org/videos/preventing-surgical-fires/. Accessed May 21, 2025.

Lyons C, Jonsson Fagerlund M. Airway fires during use of high-flow nasal oxygen: a cause for concern. Br J Anaesth. 2025 Apr;134(4):893-897. doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2024.12.021. Epub 2025 Feb 21. PMID: 40118580; PMCID: PMC11947558.

Assessing Fire Risk in Surgery: Why Limit Open Oxygen Delivery to 30%

Airway fires during use of high-flow nasal oxygen: a cause for concern

Airway fires during use of high-flow nasal oxygen: a cause for concern.