Presented September 4th, 2024 at the APSF Stoelting Conference 2024 on “Transforming Anesthetic Care: A Deep Dive into Medication Errors and Opioid Safety”
PRESENTATION MATERIALS
ABOUT THE SPEAKER(S)
Rick Botney, MD
Upon finishing his residency, Dr. Botney completed a fellowship in Human Performance and Patient Safety with David Gaba, focusing on simulation, and human factors and equipment design. He landed at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) and spearheaded the establishment of a simulation program. In addition, he was the first chair of OHSU’s Patient Safety Committee. He was also a member of OHSU’s Medication Safety Committee, the Oregon Medical Association’s Patient Safety Committee, and a Technical Advisory Committee for the Oregon Patient Safety Commission, whose focus was preventing harm from oversedation in hospitalized patients. He has published on a wide variety of safety-related topics, including the human factors of medical device design, simulation, fire, electrical, and laser safety, infusion pump safety, and failure of the oxygen supply. He is a co-author of the text Patient Safety in Plastic Surgery.
Dr. Botney is a longstanding contributing member of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation’s (AAMI) Human Engineering Committee and, more recently, the Health Information Technology and Infusion Devices Committees. Since 2017, he has been a member of the ASA Committee on Equipment and Facilities, and is currently a member of United States Pharmacopeia’s Nomenclature and Labeling Expert Committee and its Labeling Subcommittee. He revised the ASA Statement on Labeling of Pharmaceuticals For Use in Anesthesiology, which was approved in 2020. Dr. Botney is also APSF’s representative to ASTM, in order to reinstate several standards related to medication labeling, beginning with a revision of the D4774 Standard Specification for User Applied Drug Labels in Anesthesiology. Although Dr. Botney retired from clinical practice in 2021, he continues to be actively involved in issues important to anesthesiology.
