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Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation March 2018 Dear SIRS: Topical anesthesia of the upper airway for awake intubation is often accomplished by spraying local anesthetics through an atomizer.1 In our institute, we routinely utilize EZ-SprayTM (Alcove Medical Inc., Saratoga Springs, UT). Here we report an event in which the nozzle part of the EZ-SprayTM unexpectedly broke off during […]
Read MoreWhile EHRs were implemented with the idea that they would reduce administrative costs, Harvard and Duke researchers found primary care services cost providers about $100,000 annually. By Jessica Davis No evidence was found that EHR systems reduced billing costs related to physician services the studies found. One of the core reasons the federal government made its push […]
Read MoreAnesthesia Patient Safety Foundation March 2018 Authors: Richard C. Prielipp, MD, MBA, and David J. Birnbach, MD, MPH Richard C. Prielipp, MD, MBA, FCCM, professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Minnesota, introduced this provocative and timely topic on October 21, 2017, at the ASA Annual Meeting by noting that two million hospitalized patients develop […]
Read MoreAnesthesia Patient Safety Foundation March 2018 Author: Steven Greenberg, MD, FCCP, FCCM A substantial number of preventable deaths and other adverse events are associated with opioid-induced ventilatory impairment (OIVI).1 In fact, opioids are the most common category of drugs prescribed in U.S. hospitals today and the second most common category (hormone and synthetic substitutes being the […]
Read MoreAnesthesia Patient Safety Foundation March 2018 By Paige Minemyer | Costs related to the opioid epidemic have skyrocketed since 2001. The opioid epidemic has cost more than $1 trillion since 2001—an amount that is expected to continue to grow over the next several years. Altarum, a nonprofit health research and consulting institute, analyzed the cost of the opioid crisis in additional […]
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