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Authors: Alejandro Garrido Sánchez, MD et al Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Volume 34, No. 1 • June 2019 SUMMARY: In 2009 SENSAR started the first multicentre Critical Incident Reporting System in Spain. Ten years later, it accounts for 107 actively participating hospitals in Spain and Chile, with more than 500 local analyzers, over 9,000 critical incidents reported […]
Read MoreAuthors: Jason D. Walls, MD; Mark S. Weiss, MD Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Volume 34, No. 1 • June 2019 SUMMARY:Non-operating room anesthesia (NORA) comprises an increasing share of modern anesthesia practice. NORA presents setting-specific challenges to safe anesthesia care, but protocols and interdisciplinary teamwork can facilitate safe, efficient, and cost-effective procedural care in the NORA […]
Read MoreAuthor: Linda Carroll Reuters Health When it comes to common gastrointestinal operations, such as weight loss surgery, a U.S. hospital’s ranking may not equate with better outcomes, a new study suggests. For patients undergoing several common minimally-invasive abdominal surgeries, rates of death and serious complications at hospitals ranked high in the U.S. News and World […]
Read MoreBy Amy Orciari Herman Positive airway pressure is associated with lower mortality in obese patients with severe obstructive sleep apnea, according to findings in JAMA Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery. Using data from an observational study, researchers matched some 80 obese patients with OSA who were prescribed positive airway pressure to 310 who were not. During […]
Read MoreBy Kelly Young Drinking a bottle of wine a week (less than one drink a day) is equivalent to smoking 5 to 10 cigarettes in terms of the absolute increase in cancer risk, according to a study in BMC Public Health. Using health survey and lifetime-cancer-risk data from the U.K., researchers report that among men who […]
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