Circulation 60,475 • Volume 15, No. 3 • Fall 2000
Patient safety issues and concerns permeated the multitude of presentations at the 12th World Congress of Anesthesiologists of the World Federated Societies of Anesthesiologists held in Montréal, Canada in June…
Patient safety continues its prominent position as a presentation topic that has grown to a become a permanent fixture of the American Society of Anesthesiology Annual Meeting. This year’s assembly…
The International Anesthesia Patient Safety Federation (IAPSF) was officially formed as the successor group to the International Committee for the Prevention of Anesthetic Morbidity and Mortality (ICPAMM) at a meeting…
In My Opinion Human Factors Researcher Alarmed by Deaths During PCA For approximately 17 years, I have been conducting research in human factors engineering mainly in the process control industries….
Medication errors continue to represent one of the leading inadvertent causes of complications in patient management. According to the Institute of Medicine, more than 7,000 people die each year in…
In My Opinion: In Response… While conducting human factors research across a variety of domains for the past 11 years, I have been involved over the past 7 years in…
To the Editor A healthy 19-year-old delivered a healthy infant vaginally with the benefit of epidural analgesia. During removal of the epidural catheter by the RN, the nurse noted that…
To the Editor It has recently been brought to my attention that two drugs commonly found on an anesthesia drug cart look remarkably alike in their packaging. These drugs are…
Water Stops Formation of Highly Toxic Acid To the Editor As reported in previous APSF Newsletter articles, in 1996 and 1997 Abbott recalled specific lots of sevoflurane in the U.S….
Small Ultrasounds Believed Affordable To the Editor Recently, after a patient developed a stroke following unintended carotid puncture during attempted internal jugular vein cannulation, I reviewed the (now extensive) literature…
To the Editor In recent years, it has been well established that fluid warming is an important adjunct to the prevention of intraoperative hypothermia. However, recent investigations I have performed…
Letter to the Editor: To the Editor Malpractice claims for acute postoperative blindness following spine surgery in the prone position are rapidly and greatly increasing1. Sixty-five percent of the reported…
In what may be an apparent contradiction in terms with significant patient safety implications, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has officially addressed the apparently common practice of medical…
Current selections from the APSF Newsletter now appear in Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing
J.M. Feldman, MD, J.S. Gravenstein, M.D., Coordinating Editor, I. Kalli, MD
