The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) published a featured article “Obstetrical Patient Receives Ampule of Digoxin Instead of BUPivacaine for Spinal Anesthesia” highlighting a medication error and safe practice recommendations.

A 2-year-old undergoing dental rehab was intubated orally with a Covidien (Mansfield, MA) Shiley Hi-Lo Oral Tracheal 4.0 cuffed ETT. After confirmation of ETT placement, we attempted to adjust the leak to 20 cmH20…

A significant portion of patients (20-30%) undergoing surgery may experience ongoing pain after the procedure known as chronic post-surgical pain (CPSP), with some cases even leading to severe complications. This…

Recently our pharmacy replaced remifentanil 2 mg/ml vials with 1 mg/ml vials. To provide uniformity, syringe pumps used in our perioperative areas are programmed to default to 40 mcg/ml of remifentanil…

As a result of sharing the airway with the endoscopist, airway management challenges can occur during gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy. Hypoxemia occurrence during an upper endoscopy is multifactorial…