Click the links below to view APSF Consensus Conference Recommendations.
2024 – Transforming Anesthetic Care: A Deep Dive into Medication Errors and Opioid Safety
2023 – Emerging Medical Technologies – A Patient Safety Perspective on Wearables, Big Data and Remote Care
2022 – Crucial Patient Safety Issues in Office-Based and Non-Operating Room Anesthesia (NORA)
2021 – Clinician Safety: To Care is Human
2019 – Perioperative Deterioration: Early Recognition, Rapid Intervention, and the End of Failure to Rescue
2018 – Perioperative Medication Safety: Advancing Best Practices
2017 – Perioperative Handoffs: Achieving Consensus on How to Get it Right
2016 – Distractions in the Anesthesia Work Environment: Impact on Patient Safety
2015 – Implementing and Using Emergency Manuals and Checklists to Improve Patient Safety
2014 – Patient Safety and the Perioperative Surgical Home (PSH)
2013 – Anesthesia Professionals and the Use of Advanced Medical Technologies: Recommendations for Education, Training, and Documentation
2012 – Perioperative Visual Loss: Who is at risk, What should we tell patients preoperatively, and How should we manage their intraoperative care?
2011 – Essential Monitoring Strategies to Detect Clinically Significant Drug-Induced Respiratory Depression in the Postoperative Period
2010 – Medication Safety in the Operating Room: Time for a New Paradigm
2009 – Cerebral Perfusion Pressure and the Beach Chair Position
2008 – Medication Safety and Its Impact on Patient Safety
2007 – Improving Training in Advanced Anesthesia Technology: Ensuring Patient Safety
2006 – Patient-Controlled Analgesia and Opioid-Induced Ventilatory Depression: Recognition and Prevention
2005 – Carbon Dioxide Desiccation
2004 – The Long-Term Impact of Anesthesia on Patient Outcomes (and a second one) Ensuring Patient Safety By Requiring the Use of Audible Alarms
- Conference Report (Long-Term Impact of Anesthesia)
- Conference Report (Audible Alarms)