APSF News & Updates
AORN, ASA, and APSF Clarification of Powered Air-Purifying Respirator (PAPR) Use in the Operating Room and Other Procedural Areas in Which Sterile Fields are Present
June 30, 2020
A number of facilities in the US were misinterpreting the AORN guidelines on PAPR use and denying anesthesia professionals and other operating personnel who failed to be satisfactorily fit-tested with…
Surveillance monitoring on hospital wards – what do the results of the PRODIGY trial tell us?
June 18, 2020
The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) has been the preeminent organization raising awareness of the dangers of postoperative opioid induced respiratory depression (OIRD), with its first conference on this preventable…
June 2020 APSF Newsletter
June 15, 2020
The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation is pleased to announce the release of the June 2020 APSF Newsletter.
The intubateCOVID Global Registry Describes Risk of COVID-19 Outcomes in Healthcare Workers following Tracheal Intubation of Patients with COVID-19
June 11, 2020
A global registry of healthcare workers who intubated patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 resulted in a prospective multicenter international cohort study which described a 3.1% risk of new lab-confirmed…
ISMP Shares Announcement Neuromuscular Blocking Agents Will Not Carry Safety Alert Caps Due to COVID-19 Demand
June 5, 2020
In their June 4, 2020 Newsletter, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) announces vials of vecuronium bromide and rocuronium bromide will temporarily not carry the warning statement atop the…
Electroconvulsive Therapy During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Suggested Practices for Patient and Clinician Safety at a Single Institution with Severe Community Transmission
June 4, 2020
The need for Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), which is life-saving for many patients with refractory psychosis and/or major depression,1 continues throughout the pandemic. Given the penetrance of…