Patient Safety Priorities

  • #1 Culture of Safety, Teamwork and Clinician Safety
  • #2 Clinical Deterioration
  • #3 Non-Operating Room Anesthesia
  • #4 Perioperative Brain Health
  • #5 Opioid-Related Harm
  • #6 Medication Safety
  • #7 Infectious Diseases
  • #8 Airway Management
    • APSF Patient Safety Priorities > #2 Clinical Deterioration

    Clinical Deterioration

    Preventing, detecting, determining pathogenesis, and mitigating clinical deterioration in the perioperative period
    Chair(s): Michael Scott, MB, ChB, FRCP, FRCA, FFICM; Jonathan Tan, MD
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    Table of Contents

    Overview

    1. Early warning systems in all perioperative patients
    2. Monitoring for patient deterioration
      1. Postoperative continuous monitoring on the hospital floor
      2. Opioid-induced ventilatory impairment and monitoring
      3. Early sepsis
    3. Early recognition and response to decompensating patient

     

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    APSF Activities

    • The 2019 APSF Stoelting Conference was dedicated to this topic
    • This topic has been highlighted in 2020 APSF Newsletter issues and APSF-sponsored panels and presentations
    • APSF is collaborating with American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) and other subspecialty organizations to address specific issues related to this topic
    • APSF will support prototype development for several models that may reduce failure-to-rescue
    • APSF has supported 2 research grants on this issue in the past 5 years

     

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