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Authors: 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 […]
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