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Authors: Jonathan Charnin, MD; Randy Loftus, MD Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Vo; 40 No 3 Oct 2025 Summary:This article highlights ICU safety challenges, emphasizing structured handoffs and infection prevention as critical strategies to reduce patient harm. Evidence-based communication protocols and perioperative infection control bundles are central to improving ICU outcomes. Intensive care units (ICU) emerged […]
Read MoreAuthors: Steven P. Cohen, MD; Leena Mathew, MD; Stephanie G. Vanterpool, MD, MBA; Amy C.S. Pearson, MD Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Vo; 40 No 3 Oct 2025 Summary:Over four decades, chronic pain management has advanced through interventional techniques, safer pharmacologic practices, and multidisciplinary care. Key challenges remain, including opioid misuse, patient variability, and ensuring equitable […]
Read MoreAuthors: Lauren Crosby Zawierucha, MD, MSc; Emily Naoum, MD; May C. M. Pian-Smith, MD, MS Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Vo; 40 No 3 Oct 2025 Summary:Over four decades, obstetric anesthesia safety has markedly improved through advances in monitoring, airway management, neuraxial techniques, and multidisciplinary care. Ongoing challenges include maternal morbidity disparities, hemorrhage, hypertension, and the […]
Read MoreAuthors: Ryan Field, MD; Lisa Bethea, MD; Arney Abcejo, MD; Jeffrey Huang, MD Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Vo; 40 No 3 Oct 2025 Summary:The APSF Brain Health Patient Safety Priority Advisory Group highlights postoperative delirium as a leading perioperative brain health risk, emphasizing prevention through risk assessment, evidence-based interventions, and team-based strategies to improve patient […]
Read MoreAuthors: Mark A. Warner, MD; Daniel J. Cole, MD Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Vo; 40 No 3 Oct 2025 Summary:Since 2000, the APSF has expanded its focus from anesthesia-specific safety to the broader perioperative setting, while extending its global influence. Building on dramatic safety gains of the late 20th century, the foundation emphasized new priorities, […]
Read MoreAubrey Samost-Williams, MD, MS; Jeffrey Cooper, PhD; Arney Abcejo, MD; Elizabeth Rebello, MD, FASA, FACHE Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Vol 40 No 3 Oct 2025 The APSF has spent four decades advancing medication safety in anesthesia through research, education, system design, and advocacy. Progress includes labeling standards, technology adoption, and cultural changes that continue to […]
Read MoreAuthor: Francesca Mathewes Becker’s ASC Review Two new studies conducted by researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago found that poisonings from lidocaine have increased over the last 10 years, despite a general decline in poisonings and deaths from the use of local anesthetics. The studies, published in Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine and the British Journal of […]
Read MoreAuthors: Avery Tung, MD, FCCM; P. Allan Klock, Jr., MD Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Vo; 40 No 3 Oct 2025 Summary:Airway management has advanced significantly in the past 30 years, with modern tools like video laryngoscopy (VL), supraglottic airways (SGA), and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) improving outcomes. However, safety challenges remain—especially outside the operating room—due […]
Read MoreAuthors: Starnes, Joseph R. et al. Anesthesiology, August 29, 2025. DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000005738 This prospective study investigated how skin tone affects the accuracy of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) measurements in children undergoing cardiac catheterization. Although prior evidence shows that pulse oximetry tends to overestimate oxygen saturation in patients with darker skin tones, the influence of skin pigmentation […]
Read MoreAuthors: Rosà, Tommaso et al. Anesthesiology, September 15, 2025. DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000005677 This study evaluated the recruitment-to-inflation ratio (R/I) as a bedside method to estimate lung recruitability during general anesthesia. Because patients vary in how their lungs respond to positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP), an individualized approach to setting PEEP could prevent both atelectasis and overdistension. The […]
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