The environmental impacts of greenhouse gases (GHG) are well known and include planetary warming causing rising sea levels and extreme weather events. Morbidity and mortality are associated with the resulting…

Today, Representatives Annie Kuster (D-NH) and Tom Emmer (R-MN) introduced the Inpatient Opioid Safety Act of 2021, legislation to improve patient safety, simplify care, and reduce preventable opioid-induced injury and death under the Medicare and Medicaid programs…

Technology is integral to the practice of Low-Flow Anesthesia. The most astute practitioner, well-schooled in the scientific foundations of uptake and distribution as well as the intricacies of the circle system, cannot anesthetize a single…

One of the barriers to reducing fresh gas flow and the pollution from inhalation anesthetics are those clinical situations where a rapid change in anesthetic concentration is desired. The most rapid change in concentration is achieved when…

The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation is pleased to announce the release of the October 2022 APSF Newsletter.