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Authors: Celeste Day, MS, CRNA; Edward A Bittner, MD, PhD Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation As of November 13, 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic has infected more than 253 million people worldwide causing more than 5 million deaths. At the time of this writing, the United States alone has had 46 million cases, resulting in 762,000 deaths.1 The […]
Read MoreAuthor: Elliott S. Greene, MD Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Introduction In U.S. acute care hospitals, 3.2% of patients develop one or more health care-associated infections (HAIs) resulting in increased patient morbidity, mortality, duration of hospitalization, and health care costs.1 Catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSIs) are the most common etiology of HAI and these can occur with central […]
Read MoreAuthors: Caroline Thomas, MD; Jennifer M. Banayan, MD Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Vol 37 No 01 Feb 2022 Background Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by persistent deficits in communication and social interaction and is often associated with the presence of stereotypic or repetitive behaviors.1 The incidence of autism in the United States is increasing and […]
Read MoreAuthors: Monica Hoagland, MD et al Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Foreign body ingestions are common events among pediatric patients. Button battery ingestions are particularly dangerous. Although the incidence of button battery ingestions has not changed over the last 30 years,1 the rates of emergency department visits, major morbidity, and mortality have risen dramatically since the introduction […]
Read MoreAuthors: Patty Reilly, CRNA; Matthew B. Weinger, MD; Brian Thomas, JD Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation SUMMARY STATEMENTS ON CLINICIAN BURNOUT AND WELL-BEING: A failure to address the crisis of clinician burnout and degraded well-being will be costly to clinicians, patients, and health care organizations. Clinician burnout is a significant patient safety issue (unhappy, unhealthy clinicians […]
Read MoreAuthor: Daniel J. Cole, MD Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Dan Cole, MD, has recently been elected as APSF President and has been a major contributor on the APSF Board of Directors for years. He has a long history of strong dedication to perioperative patient safety and is a pioneer in the field of brain health. […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Cohen, Barak MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: February 2022 BACKGROUND: The risk of myocardial injury progressively increases at intraoperative mean arterial pressures (MAPs) ≤65 mm Hg. Higher pressures might be required in chronically hypertensive patients. We aimed to test the hypothesis that the harm threshold is higher in patients with chronic hypertension than in […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Chen, Luying MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: February 2022 – Volume 134 – Issue 2 – p 400-409 BACKGROUND: Traditional landmark-guided spinal anesthesia can be challenging in elderly patients with hip fractures. Ultrasound assistance (USAS) and real-time ultrasound guidance (USRTG) techniques can facilitate lumbar neuraxial blocks. However, it remains undetermined which method is optimal […]
Read MoreThis is for our readers who treat chronic pain pts. DG Journal Club AUTHORS: Graham S Goh, Wai-Mun Yue et al. Clin Spine Surg. 2022 Feb 1; 35(1): E143-E149 STUDY DESIGN Retrospective review of prospectively collected data. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine how different combinations of preoperative back pain (BP) and […]
Read MoreI wanted to share with our readers since heart disease is the number one killer in USA. Author: Anthony Vecchione Cardiovascular Business Complying with the American Heart Association’s Life’s Simple 7 (LS7) recommendations is associated with a lower lifetime risk of developing coronary heart disease (CHD), according to a new study published in Circulation. The LS7 recommendations […]
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