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Authors: Tricia A. Meyer et al Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Volume 38, No. 2 • June 2023 BACKGROUND Administering the wrong medication is one of the most feared complications in any field of medicine. Anesthesia professionals are some of the only providers who prescribe, prepare, and administer their own medications. Therefore, the perceived fear among anesthesia […]
Read MoreA hacking incident at a New York-based administrative services firm has resulted in a growing list of anesthesiology practices reporting breaches that so far have affected the personal information of about 430,000 people. Somnia Inc., in Harrison, New York, is a physician-owned anesthesia management services firm that also appears to have corporate or leadership ties […]
Read MoreAuthors: Julio C. Montejano, MD et al ASA Monitor January 2023, Vol. 87, 32–33. Mr. Teguo educates the anesthesia team and the future IONM technologist on proper electrode placement. The stated mission of the ASA Committee on Global Health is to enhance, support, educate, represent and collaborate for safe anesthesia practice worldwide. As an ASA Committee […]
Read MoreAuythors: David M. Feinstein, MD, MSBME; Matthew Popovich, PhD ASA Monitor January 2023, Vol. 87, 18–19. In July and August 2022, an increasing number of anesthesiologists began to notice potential and actual shortages of their preferred epidural kits. Although most anesthesiologists did not have to find substitutes for their kits, a significant number of anesthesiologists nonetheless sounded […]
Read MoreAuthors: Jonathan E. Charnin, MD, FASA; Randy W. Loftus, MD ASA Monitor January 2023, Vol. 87, 36–37. There are always opportunities to improve perioperative patient safety, but some might escape notice because the agent of harm is invisible. The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) Committee on Infection Prevention is a multidisciplinary, multiprofessional group of experts who convene […]
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