Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation NEWSLETTER Volume 15, No. 4 Circulation 60,475
	Winter 2000-2001

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SPECIAL ISSUE: OBA Safety Patient Safety Featured in ASA Meeting Exhibits ASA Scientific Presentation Sessions Focus on Multiple Patient Safety Issues Editorial: APSF President Reports on State of the Foundation, ASA Annual Meeting Features Many, Varied Patient Safety Topics APSF Testifies to AHRQ Research Summit Meeting AstraZeneca and Agilent Thanked APSF Awards Three Research Grants for 2001 Research Grant Applications Sought by APSF Peri-anesthetic Data Management: Report on the Retreat of the Board of Directors of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Presentation Summaries: – Critical Incidents, Anesthesia Safety And Record Keeping – A Vision of the Future of Perioperative Information Management – Perioperative Data Collection – Intraoperative Physiologic Data Collection – The Capture of Anesthesia Machine & Ventilator Data: Problems & Solutions – Drug Recognition – Infusion Pumps and Their Safety in the OR – Postoperative Data Collection and Outcome – Data Capture During the Perioperative Period: Perspectives on Data Analysis Letters to the Editor: – Mandatory Safety Reporting Feasibility Questioned – Epidural Catheter Wire Left Behind in Patient's Back – A Correction on Disclosure Letters to the Editor: Office-Based Anesthesia Issue Provokes Responses – SOBA Citation Missed in Office-Based Issue – Office-Based Anesthesia, an American Tradition – Is the U.S. Behind the U.K. (Again) on Office-Based Anesthesia? – Call GA What It Is, Not Just "A Little Sedation" In My Opinion (Re-rebuttal): Patients Perceived Still at Risk with PCA Pumps APSF Donors Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Officers, Directors, and Committees, 2001 Credits APSF Booth at ASA Meeting Spreads Patient Safety Message

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