Circulation 60,475 • Volume 13, No. 1 • Spring 1998
At the 10th European Congress of Anesthesiology this summer in Frankfurt, Germany, one afternoon will be devoted to an international perspective on anesthesia patient safety. The session will be held…
Patient safety was a significant component of one section of the scientific presentations at the March 7-11 Annual Meeting of the International Anesthesia Research Society in Orlando. Summarized briefly here…
In 1985, Ellison C. Pierce, Jr. M.D., proposed and guided the formation of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF). As its first President, Dr. Pierce was instrumental in the APSF…
A long-standing interest of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation has reached a significant milestone with the publication of an important article on prolonged postoperative cognitive dysfunction in the elderly.1 It…
[Editor’s note: The recently issued FDA Advisory regarding the risk associated with peridural anesthesia and anticoagulation has generated significant discussion.] On December 15, 1997, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
Topic: Class Labeling Revisions for the Low Molecular Weight Heparin (LMWH) and Heparinoids The committee discussed three questions relating to the labeling of low molecular weight heparins and heparinoids, specifically:…
The American Society of Regional Anesthesia (ASRA) organized a symposium of experts held May 2-3, 1998, to examine guidelines for regional anesthesia in the anticoagulated patient. This consensus meeting is…
Introduction Undergraduate and postgraduate education of physicians and other medical personnel is conducted almost exclusively in clinical settings. This has several disadvantages including: 1) patients may be exposed to added…
To the Editor As many readers of the APSF Newsletter may be aware, there are more and more people coming to surgery who have implanted Internal Cardiac Pacemaker Defibrillators or…
The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation announces the deadline of June 15, 1998, for receipt of applications for research grants to start January 1, 1999. Grants are limited to a total…
Tracheal intubation with inhalational agent without muscle relaxants (IAWMR) has been an accepted technique when used for the management of difficult pediatric airways. Spontaneous ventilation during induction has been proposed…
Founding Patron American Society of Anesthesiologists Grand Patrons Glaxo Wellcome Inc. Hewlett-Packard Company Mallinckrodt Medical, Inc. Nellcor Puritan Bennett Neurex Ohmeda Inc. Preferred Physicians Medical Risk Retention Group, Inc. Roche…
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
