September 1996

Newsletter Book Published

September 10, 1996

The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation is pleased to announce publication of Anesthesia Patient Safety, A Modern History; Reprints from the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Newsletter, 1986-1993. Edited by Newsletter Editor,...

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ICPAMM Meeting Review of Safety Includes New Worldwide Expansion

September 10, 1996

Continuing a now 12-year tradition, the International Committee For Prevention of Anesthesia Mortality And Morbidity (ICPAMM) met in Sydney, Australia, as a satellite meeting of the 11th World Congress of...

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Graphical Anesthesia Simulators Gain Widespread Use

September 10, 1996

Screen-based, graphical anesthesia and critical care simulators reproduce patient care scenarios and dozens of emergency situations from the operating room, ICU, and ER environments to enable health care professionals to...

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Historical Perspective of APSF Shows Safety Advocacy

September 10, 1996

Historically, interest in anesthetic morbidity and mortality has not been the private preserve of the anesthesiologist. While England’s John Snow is remembered for his classical study of chloroform deaths, the...

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Remifentanil–Safety Issues With a New Opioid Drug

September 10, 1996

Editor’s Note: Articles in the APSF Newsletter addressing the safety implications of new anesthetic medications have primarily concerned volatile inhalation anesthetics. Here, a noted authority considers a new narcotic that...

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The New Jersey Experience: Mandatory Reporting Mechanism

September 10, 1996

A detailed article appeared in the June, 1989, APSF Newsletter outlining the New Jersey Anesthesia Regulations adopted on January 23, 1989. Included in the Regulation were five unusual requirements: (1)...

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ASA Meeting Features Patient Safety Again

September 10, 1996

Patient safety persists as a significant theme of the American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting, this year to be held in New Orleans, October 19-23. Last year’s meeting will be...

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APSF Has New “Net” Address

September 10, 1996

“http://apsf.med.yale.edu” is the new address of the APSF web site on the Internet. The change makes access more direct and faster. This is particularly valuable as the material available at...

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June 1996

Aircraft Emergency Care…

June 10, 1996

To the Editor Dr. Phoebe Leith’s letter published in the Spring 1996 issue of the Newsletter, reminds me that “the more things change, the more they remain the same.” Some...

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Non-cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema…

June 10, 1996

To the Editor In reporting a case of non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema related to difficult intubation (and extubation with laryngospasm), Ohn describes the several theses about its cause.(1) He mentions the...

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Anesthesia Machines…2

June 10, 1996

To the Editor This is a response to Dr. Gerald G. Pousho’s “Letter to the Editor” (APSF Newsletter, Winter 1995-96) concerning obsolescence of anesthesia machines. Anesthesia equipment, contrary to automobiles...

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Replacement of Anesthesia Machines…

June 10, 1996

To the Editor No current consensus exists regarding when to replace an aging anesthesia machine. Each institution must examine the anesthesia machines presently in use and then decide in what...

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Blitt on Lidocaine…

June 10, 1996

To the Editor We found Dr. Casey Blitt’s letters regarding the use of 5% lidocaine for single injection spinal anesthesia provocative.(1,2) However, Dr. Blitt ignores data that prompted this reply....

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Low Flow…

June 10, 1996

To the Editor I write in response to the letter from Frances E. Noe and William E. Farrant in the Winter, 1995-96, APSF Newsletter titled “Is Low Flow Really Safe?”...

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Pierce and Siker…

June 10, 1996

To the Editor I read the Winter, 1995-96, Newsletter with interest, particularly about the presentations by Drs. Pierce and Siker. Some years ago, Professor Paul Star, in his book on...

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Correction

June 10, 1996

In the list of Officers, Directors, and Committee Members published in the Winter issue of the APSF Newsletter, the name of Ms. Adrienne C. Lang was accidentally omitted from the...

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Hospital Deaths

June 10, 1996

In mid-March 1996, the Associated Press reported on four deaths in a Texas hospital. The initial report attributed the deaths to contaminated oxygen. The A.P. release was not picked up...

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Medical Air

June 10, 1996

Unlike the other piped medical gases which are typically delivered to hospitals in cylinders, medical air is most often manufactured on-site. This is accomplished by pulling outside air into a...

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Gravenstein Response on Anesthesia Machines

June 10, 1996

Response Editor”s Note: In the Winter issue of the Newsletter, a letter writer inquired, “Is there currently a consensus regarding when anesthesia machines become outdated, obsolete, or unsafe and, therefore,...

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March 1996

Crisis Management

March 10, 1996

Anesthesiologists have to be experts at crisis management. Fortunately, I was able to take a special course in Anesthesia Crisis Resource Management at Stanford over a year ago, before completing...

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