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. Have you ever been asked by a patient, “How will anesthesia affect my brain?” Anesthesia professionals need to consider optimizing brain health throughout the perioperative period by identifying high risk patients and taki...

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. Tune in today for Part 2 in our series on anesthesia patient safety considerations related to opioid-induced respiratory depression. We are doing a literature review and discussing a proposed new approach to postoperative...

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. When was the last time you administered an opioid or ordered opioids for postoperative pain control? For many anesthesia professionals, this is something that we do on a routine basis. There are very important anesthesia p...

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. We are continuing the conversation about GLP-1 receptor agonist medications today. Tune in today as we talk about how to keep patients taking GLP-1 receptor agonists safe during anesthesia care. Spoiler alert: We are revie...

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. We are talking about GLP-1 receptor agonist medications today. Patients taking these medications may be at increased risk for aspiration even after an appropriate preoperative fasting period. Tune in today as we talk about...

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. We hope you tuned in last week to Part 1 of our two-part series on keeping pediatric patients safe during transport in the hospital. Today, we are continuing the conversation and talking about identifying and mitigating ri...

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. We are keeping the June 2023 APSF Newsletter open for our show today. Calling all anesthesia professionals who take care of critically ill patients and are involved in transporting these patients around the hospital. Today...

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. We are picking up right where we left off last week to continue the conversation about keeping patients safe from medication errors due to look-alike and sound-alike drugs. Today, we are reviewing strategies to help decrea...

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. We are diving into the June 2023 APSF Newsletter today and talking about medication safety. Have you ever reached into your anesthesia drawer and grabbed a look-alike vial? This is a big threat to anesthesia patient safety...

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. Join us today for an exciting Articles Between Issues show. First up, we are discussing EEG-based depth of anesthesia monitoring. Then, we cover the Con-side of the debate on the use of supraglottic airway devices for lapa...

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. Whether you are just starting your training in anesthesia, just starting your career after training, or have been providing anesthesia care for years, this show is full of tips, clinical scenarios, and resources so that yo...

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. Whether you are just starting your training in anesthesia, just starting your career after training, or have been providing anesthesia care for years, this show is full of tips, clinical scenarios, and resources so that yo...

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. Join us on the show today as we continue our exploration of the fascinating and rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence and anesthesia patient safety. In this second part of the series, we. delve deeper into diff...

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. Join us on the show today as we discuss the intersection of artificial intelligence and anesthesia patient safety. The future is bright with so many options for AI in anesthesiology including machine learning, natural lang...

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. What are the key attributes of effective leaders? Join us on the show today as we talk about these attributes: effective communication, collaboration, experience, and adaptability. There is a call to action that effective...

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. Progress towards improving anesthesia patient safety depends on individual anesthesia professionals building and maintaining a strong base of knowledge and technical skills and then remaining vigilant during anesthesia car...

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. We are heading back into the main operating room to talk about one of the most challenging cases in the operating rooms, liver transplants. The conversation continues on the show today as we discuss considerations for mini...

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. We have talked about anesthesia patient safety in different areas of the hospital from the maternity wards to non-operating room anesthesia suites, but this time, we are heading into the main operating room to talk about o...

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. Are you being smart when it comes to smart infusion pumps to help keep patients safe during anesthesia care? We are continuing the conversation about the intersection between anesthesia patient safety and technology on the...

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. Have you provided anesthesia care for a patient with an Mpox infection? Today we are going to review the current evidence and go through a framework for perioperative care for patients infected with Mpox. anesthesia profes...

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. Have you provided anesthesia care for a patient with limited English proficiency? Language barriers in healthcare are a big threat to patient safety. Today, we are talking about how we can keep patients with limited Englis...

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. What is your airway management device of choice during laparoscopic surgery? Do you always reach for an endotracheal tube? Have you ever used a supraglottic airway device? Tune in today to learn about the benefits, risks,...

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. We are continuing our journey into the new era for PONV. Tune in today for a review of PONV risk factors and management options. Plus, we are digging in to the recently updated Fourth Consensus Guidelines for the Managemen...

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. Our show today is all about management of postoperative nausea and vomiting. We are reviewing the D2-antagonist medications that may be used for prevention and treatment of PONV. Spoiler alert: Amisulpride is the new drug...

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. Tune in today as we continue our discussion of cognitive bias in anesthesiology. This is a threat to anesthesia patient safety, so we need the tools to be able to recognize cognitive bias when it occurs, acknowledge the im...