APSF News & Updates
Practice Update: Blood Component Decisions for Jehovah’s Witness Patients
September 24, 2026
Jehovah’s Witnesses recently announced an important change in their guidance regarding blood transfusion. As of September 18, 2026, decisions regarding transfusion of donor red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma, or platelets are…
APSF Recognizes the 23 Institutions That Submitted Letters of Intent for Research Projects
September 24, 2026
The grant programs by the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF), in addition to a joint program with the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER), received 31 Letters of Intent from 27 institutions across the United States and Canada during the…
Rehospitalization and the Association of Postoperative Delirium With Cognitive Decline in Older Adults
September 21, 2026
Postoperative delirium (POD) is common in older surgical patients and is associated with adverse long-term outcomes, including functional impairment, dementia, and cognitive decline. Whether this association represents causation versus correlation…
Watch the 2026 APSF Stoelting Conference Livestream “SOS!: Signals of Safety… Safely across the Patient’s Perioperative Journey”
September 9, 2026
Join APSF in Transforming Anesthesia Care Across the Perioperative Journey…
Announcing the 2026 APSF Trainee Quality Improvement/Patient Safety (TQI/PS) Recognition Program Award Winners
September 9, 2026
The APSF is pleased to announce the 2026 APSF Trainee Quality Improvement/Patient Safety (TQI/PS) Recognition Program Award Winners.
Benchmarking Large Language Model Performance in Perioperative Crisis Responses
August 31, 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, including large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s GPT series and Meta’s Llama series, have gained currency in many fields, including anesthesiology. LLMs are trained on…
