Anesthesia Claims Decrease
Mark D. WoodNumber Rises More Slowly But Severity Remains High In the past, anesthesiologists were viewed as a high-risk group by professional liability insurers. The risks of using anesthesia and the frequency…
Number Rises More Slowly But Severity Remains High In the past, anesthesiologists were viewed as a high-risk group by professional liability insurers. The risks of using anesthesia and the frequency…
The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation announced the first awards of its Research Grants Program begun in 1986. The purpose of the program is to support clinical research directed toward enhancing…
Editor’s note: In each APSFNewsletter, a pertinent publication from the anesthesia patient safety literature YAII be summa6zed. suggestions for future issues are welcome. Lunn, J.N. (ed): Epidemiology in Anesthesia. London,…
Many devices shown by technical exhibitors at the October, 1986 ASA Annual Meeting can enhance patient safety. An impressive array of pulse oximeters was shown, probably reflecting increased demand and…
Ellison C. Pierce, Jr., MD, is Chairman of the Department of Anesthesia, New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston, and Associates Professor at Harvard Medical School The first reported death from Anesthesia…
ICPAMM originated from a group that first met in Boston in October 1984, during the International Symposium (now Committee) on Preventable Anesthesia Mortality and Morbidity. The September ICPAMM meeting in…
Question: We are in the process of designing new operating rooms at our community hospital. The architects have indicated that local building and fire codes require isolated power systems in…
The 7th Asian and Australasian Congress of Anaesthesiologists was held in Hong Kong from 20-25 September. Present were more than 400 delegates from over 20 countries. The meeting was particularly…
Puritan-Bennett Thanked The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Newsletter gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the Puritan-Bennett Corporation, Overland Park, KS, which provides facilities and the staff who typeset (Ms. Jennifer Stockstill),…
To the Editor Thank you for the APSF Newsletter which describes the Anesthesia Apparatus Checkout Recommendations that we routinely follow. I am concerned about the “valid inspection sticker”. I believe…
In November, 1985, the chiefs of anesthesiology of the 13 hospitals of the Capital Area Health Consortium in northern Connecticut agreed that there should be a uniform policy for oxygenation…
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Ellison C. Pierce, Jr., M.D., President; W. Dew Rountree, Jr., Vice-President\; E.S. Siker, M.D., Secretary; Burton A. Dole, Jr., Treasurer; Jeffrey BL Cooper, Ph.D.; Joachim S. Gavenstein, M.D.; James E Holzer, J.D.
John H. Eichhom, M.D., Stanley 1. Aukburg, M.D., Jeffrey M. Beutler, C.R.N.A., M.S., Ralph A. Epstein, M.D., David E. Lees, M.D., E.S. Siker, M.D., Benard V. Wetchier, M.D., Mr. Mark D. Wood