Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation

NEWSLETTER

Volume 15, No. 2 Circulation 60,475

Summer 2000

Breaking News: Office Surgery Suspended by Florida Board

• APSF Responds to IOM Medical Error Report
• Medical Technology Group Features Gravenstein Speaking in D.C. on Reduction of Medical Errors
• Letter to the Editor: Office Anesthesia Safety Brings Comments - Motives for Office Surgery, Increased Safety Risk Cited from FL
• Letter to the Editor: AAAASF Restates Group's OBA Accrediting Standards
• Federal Agencies Convene Medical Error Summit
• Letter to the Editor: Anesthesia Safety - By Any Means Necessary?
• Letter to the Editor: IV "Sedation" Poses Safety Threat - Confusion of Amnesia, Analgesia Shows Need to Change Practices
• Letter to the Editor: Patients Often Get GA, Not "A Little Sedation"
• International Anesthesia Safety Group Hears Worldwide Perspective at World Congress
• Full Text of APSF Response to IOM Medical Error Report
• Donors

Current selections from the APSF Newsletter now appear in Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing

Editors:
J.M. Feldman, MD, J.S. Gravenstein, M.D., Coordinating Editor, I. Kalli, MD

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