The State of the APSF Annual Message
Robert K. Stoelting, M.D.The year 1998 represented my first year as President of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) and the first time since the formation of the APSF that this “annual state…
The year 1998 represented my first year as President of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) and the first time since the formation of the APSF that this “annual state…
Patient safety issues were again prominent in the Exhibit Hall at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists held in Orlando in October. Among the Scientific Exhibits,…
Patient safety was prominently featured in several scientific sessions at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) in Orlando in October. Interested readers can review abstracts 1172-1244…
The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation announced two research grant awards for 1999 at its Annual Meeting in October in Orlando. In this, the 13th year of the APSF grants program,…
Introduction The complexity of the modern anesthesia machine, with its numerous components and accessory attachments, is such that multiple factors can lead to a loss of pressure within the breathing…
The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation announces the deadline of June 14, 1999, for receipt of applications for research grants to start January 1, 2000. Note: grants are limited to newly…
From time to time, the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation reconfirms its commitment of working with all who devote their energies to making anesthesia as safe as humanly possible. Thus, the…
The APSF Newsletter was extremely fortunate in 1998 to experience a remarkably smooth nearly seamless transition to its new production location in Wilmington, Delaware, under the sponsorship of Zeneca, Inc….
For nearly a decade, one source of anesthesia patient safety information has been a series of video productions jointly conceived and produced by the ASA Committee on Patient Safety and…
The following individuals have joined the APSF Board of Directors for 1999, as noted on page 43 of this edition: Ruben G. Derderian, President & CEO of North American Drager;…
Executive Committee Robert K. Stoelting, M.D. APSF President Indiana University Indianapolis, IN Burton A. Dole, Jr. APSF Vice-President Pauma Valley, CA David M. Gaba, M.D. APSF Secretary Stanford University Palo…
[Editor’s Note: Reprinted here is a letter submitted to the Journal of the American Medical Association by the Executive Director of the APSF in response to a major editorial regarding…
Corporate Donors Founding Patron American Society of Anesthesiologists Grand Patron Abbott Laboratories Aspect Medical Systems Astra Pharmaceuticals, L.P. Datex-Ohmeda Glaxo Wellcome Inc. Hewlett-Packard Company Mallinckrodt Medical, Inc. Neurex Corporation Preferred…
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