APSF Responds to IOM Medical Error Report
The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation was cited as a model for efforts to help improve patient safety several times in the landmark November, 1999, Institute of Medicine report (see the…
Articles
Medical Technology Group Features Gravenstein Speaking in D.C. on Reduction of Medical Errors
Provoked by the landmark Institute of Medicine report on medical errors, many professional and industry groups are organizing both fact-finding efforts and prospective programs to attempt to deal with these…
International Anesthesia Safety Group Hears Worldwide Perspective at World Congress
The new International Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation was officially launched at the 12th World Congress of the World Federated Societies of Anesthesiologists in Montreal, Canada, in early June with a…
Full Text of APSF Response to IOM Medical Error Report
The recent report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM), “To Err Is Human,” recognizes the domain of anesthesia care as one of the only disciplines in health care that has…
Letters to the Editor
Office Anesthesia Safety Brings Comments
JC Lydon, MDMotives for Office Surgery, Increased Safety Risk Cited from FL To the Editor Regarding the article in the Spring, 2000, Florida Society of Anesthesiologists Today by Dr. Charles Laurito, can…
AAAASF Restates Group’s OBA Accrediting Standards
James A. Yates, MDTo the Editor It is with some great concern that I have had an opportunity to review your recent APSF Newsletter, Spring 2000. In this issue there was presented what…
Mandatory Safety Reporting Anesthesia Safety – By Any Means Necessary?
George Mychaskiw II, DOTo the Editor Very few can deny that the practice of anesthesia is safer today than it was twenty years ago, and indeed, safer than at any time in history….
IV “Sedation” Poses Safety Threat Confusion of Amnesia, Analgesia Shows Need to Change Practices
Mike Stewart, MS, PNP, CRNATo the Editor I address the controversy surrounding the use of conscious IV sedation. The discussions continue to examine the qualifications of those prescribing and administering the agents and of…
Patients Often Get GA, Not “A Little Sedation”
Lee A. Balaklaw, MDTo the Editor I would like to raise a question in the terms of the language that we use with patients when we describe sedation to them. In many instances,…
Announcements
Federal Agencies Convene Medical Error Summit
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and its partners on the Quality Interagency Coordination (QuIC) Task Force, will sponsor a national summit on medical errors and patient safety…
Breaking News: Office Surgery Suspended by Florida Board
Office surgery under general or spinal anesthesia was ordered stopped for a 90-day moratorium period in Florida by an 8-5 vote in the Florida Board of Medicine on August 5,…
Current selections from the APSF Newsletter now appear in Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing
Editors:
J.M. Feldman, MD, J.S. Gravenstein, M.D., Coordinating Editor, I. Kalli, MD