Anesthesia Patient Safety Podcast

Welcome to the next installment of the Anesthesia Patient Safety podcast hosted by Alli Bechtel.  This podcast is an exciting journey towards improved anesthesia patient safety. Today, we are going dive into the 35th Anniversary Edition of the APSF Newsletter, the Jade edition.  We reveal behind the scenes information about the creation and production of the newsletter. In addition, we provide a 2...

Welcome to the next installment of the Anesthesia Patient Safety podcast hosted by Alli Bechtel.  This podcast is an exciting journey towards improved anesthesia patient safety. Today, we are going to review a featured article from the June 2019 Newsletter, “Alarm fatigue and patient safety” by Keith Ruskin and James Bliss.  We hope that you tune in as we review the scope of the problem and offer...

Welcome to the next installment of the Anesthesia Patient Safety podcast hosted by Alli Bechtel.  This podcast will be an exciting journey towards improved anesthesia patient safety. Today on the show, I discuss the APSF Grant Recipient for 2020, Scott Segal, MD, for his winning project  “Development of Machine Learning Algorithms to Predict Difficult Airway Management.” This is an APSF/Medtronic...

Welcome to the next installment of the Anesthesia Patient Safety podcast hosted by Alli Bechtel.  This podcast is an exciting journey towards improved anesthesia patient safety. This is an APSF Newsletter archives show. Today on the show, we discuss the role of the Preoperative Assessment Clinic in terms of improving patient safety as well as operating room efficiency and surgeon and patient satis...

Welcome to the next installment of the Anesthesia Patient Safety podcast hosted by Alli Bechtel.  This podcast is an exciting journey towards improved anesthesia patient safety. Today on the show, we return to the APSF’s Novel Coronavirus Resource Center and review 11 Frequently Asked Questions related to clinical care. These questions and answers are so important as we strive to keep patients, an...

Welcome to the next installment of the Anesthesia Patient Safety podcast hosted by Alli Bechtel.  This podcast is an exciting journey towards improved anesthesia patient safety. Today on the show, we review perioperative considerations for patients with cardiovascular implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) include the following: pacemakers indicated for bradyarrhythmia treatment, implantable cardi...

Welcome to the next installment of the Anesthesia Patient Safety podcast hosted by Alli Bechtel.  This podcast is an exciting journey towards improved anesthesia patient safety. Today on the show, we explore the Rapid Response to questions from our readers section. We take a closer look at the question of non-invasive blood pressure monitoring gaps during anesthesia patient care. What is the ideal...

Welcome to the next installment of the Anesthesia Patient Safety podcast hosted by me, Alli Bechtel.  This podcast is an exciting journey towards improved anesthesia patient safety. Today on the show, I discuss the APSF Research Program and the 2020 APSF Investigator Initiated Grant Recipient, Sheila Riazi, MD, for her project titled “A Minimally Invasive Diagnostic Test for Malignant Hyperthermia...

Welcome to the next installment of the Anesthesia Patient Safety podcast hosted by me, Alli Bechtel.  This podcast will be an exciting journey towards improved anesthesia patient safety. Today on the show, I discuss the article, “Healthy Relationships Between Anesthesia Professionals and Surgeons are Vital to Patient Safety” by Jeffrey B. Cooper, PhD. Tune in learn about why this dyad is so import...

Welcome to the next installment of the Anesthesia Patient Safety podcast hosted by Alli Bechtel.  This podcast will be an exciting journey towards improved anesthesia patient safety. Today on the show I return to the Novel Coronavirus Resource Center and talk about, “An Update on the Perioperative Considerations for COVID-19 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2)” by Zucco an...

During the show today, I talk about the 2020 President’s Report by Mark Warner, MD, president of the APSF. This was published in the February 2020 APSF Newsletter. I also review the role of effective leadership on creating and improving a culture of safety for patients and healthcare professionals as well as provide information about creating a successful intraoperative handoff communication tool....

During this episode, I introduce the famous APSF Newsletter.  I also dive into the June 2020 Newsletter and review the 3 featured articles. Finally, I discuss the Letter to the Editor and the case of the misfilled vaporizer. For show notes & transcript, visit our episode page at apsf.org: https://www.apsf.org/podcast/3-highlights-from-the-june-2020-apsf-newsletter/

Welcome to the next installment of the Anesthesia Patient Safety podcast hosted by Alli Bechtel.  This podcast will be an exciting journey towards improved anesthesia patient safety. On today’s episode, I talk about the APSF Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) resource center.  Here is the link and be sure to check it out. https://www.apsf.org/novel-coronavirus-covid-19-resource-center/ Here is the discl...

Welcome to the first episode of the new Anesthesia Patient Safety podcast hosted by Alli Bechtel.  This podcast will be an exciting journey towards improved anesthesia patient safety.   On today’s episode, I introduce the new podcast and review the mission statement and vision statement of the APSF.  https://www.apsf.org/about-apsf/mission-and-vision-statements/ I also review the 12 Patient Safety...