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 for the third and final part of our exciting three part series on the low pressure alarm. Our featured article is “The Low-Pressure Alarm Condition: Safety Considerations and the Anesthesiologist’s Response” by David Raphael from the APSF Winter 1998 Newsletter. Today, the alarm pressure alarm sounds and we discus...
Jun 29, 2021•19 min
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 for Part two of our exciting three part series on the low pressure alarm. Our featured article is “The Low-Pressure Alarm Condition: Safety Considerations and the Anesthesiologist’s Response” by David Raphael from the APSF Winter 1998 Newsletter. Today, the alarm pressure alarm sounds and we discuss the differenti...
Jun 22, 2021•17 min
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 kick off a review of one of the most popular APSF articles of all time, “The Low-Pressure Alarm Condition: Safety Considerations and the Anesthesiologist’s Response” by David Raphael from the APSF Winter 1998 Newsletter. We also have exclusive content from the ASPF Committee on Technology Chair, Jeffre...
Jun 15, 2021•17 min
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 postoperative delirium and perioperative cognitive function. Today, we discuss assessment tools for delirium and intervention strategies. We hope that you will join us for a journey to the next frontier in anesthesiology to optimize brain safety during surgery and anesthesia care a...
Jun 08, 2021•15 min
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 start the conversation about perioperative brain health and safety. This is such an important topic that this is only part one. Tune in to learn about postoperative delirium including risk factors, screening tools and more. Plus, we have exclusive content from one of the authors. © 2021, The Anesthesia Patient S...
Jun 01, 2021•17 min
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. One of the most common patient monitors is the pulse oximeter. In the operating room, it creates a constant beeping sound that reflects the patient’s oxygen saturation during surgery and anesthesia care. Today on the show, we take a closer look at the relationship between pulse oximetry and skin tone. Tune in as we discus...
May 25, 2021•18 min
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 jumping back in to the Rapid Response to Questions from our Readers column with the theme of IV lines and administration sets. If you have ever placed a Rapid Infuser Catheter or used a Burette for pediatric patients, we hope you will tune in to learn about these important patient safety considerations for u...
May 18, 2021•17 min
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 once again outside the operating rooms and outside the hospital and making our way into the office to discuss important considerations for anesthesia patient safety in office-based practices. This is part two of a special two part series. Our featured article is from the June 2020 APSF Newsletter called, “Ed...
May 11, 2021•17 min
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 venturing outside the operating rooms and outside the hospital and making our way into the office to discuss important considerations for anesthesia patient safety in office-based practices. This is part one of a special two part series. Our featured article is from the June 2020 APSF Newsletter called, “Edu...
May 04, 2021•15 min
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. Our featured article from the Summer 1997 APSF Newsletter is “Anesthesia Safety Always an Issue with Obstructive Sleep Apnea.” You will not want to miss this episode since anesthesia safety is still an issue for patients with OSA. © 2021, The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation F...
Apr 27, 2021•14 min
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. If you were wondering how you were going to be able to make it between the recent February 2021 ASPF Newsletter release and the next release in June, have no fear. The articles between the issues will continue to provide vital patient safety information throughout the year. Today, we are talking about tension pneumothorax...
Apr 20, 2021•17 min
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 a brief review of malignant hyperthermia before we switch gears to discuss several drug-induced syndromes with similar presentations. Just as anesthesia professionals need to be able to recognize and treat MH quickly, it is just as important that anesthesia professionals can recognize and treat quickly t...
Apr 13, 2021•17 min
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 seen a patient with a perioperative hypersensitivity reaction? What was the culprit? Join us today as we discuss perioperative hypersensitivity reactions including the latest on identification and evaluation. Spoiler alert: This is a good time to partner with an allergy or immunology specialist. This is an import...
Apr 06, 2021•21 min
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. The question is, “HEPA Filters. Do we really know enough?” Tune in today for more information about patient infection risk from contaminated breathing systems, viral transmission modes, the physics of filtration, different filters available, and standard tests for filter efficiency. This is another Rapid Response to quest...
Mar 30, 2021•20 min
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 dive into the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System to evaluate the database entries for Sevoflurane and Desflurane over the past 25 -30 years. We discuss important safety concerns related to these medications that are used every day in clinical anesthesia practice. We hope that you will stay pharmacovigi...
Mar 23, 2021•20 min
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 to learn all about a method for process improvement than may be used to increase anesthesia patient safety with the added benefit of improved efficiency. That’s right today we are talking about “Proactive Perioperative Risk Analysis: Use of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)” by George Tewfik, MD and w...
Mar 16, 2021•16 min
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 are covering 2 powerful patient safety areas that are featured in the February 2021 APSF Newsletter. Join us as we look at a case of an unexpected anesthesia machine failure. We also discuss considerations for performing elective surgery during a power outage. You don’t want to miss this energizing sh...
Mar 09, 2021•19 min
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 most recent February 2021 APSF Newsletter with exclusive content from one of the authors. Join us today to hear about why it is so important to develop and maintain a culture of safety with a disclosure process. That’s not all. Another important part of the culture of safety involves peer support pr...
Mar 03, 2021•20 min
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 returning to our review of local anesthetic systemic toxicity and this won’t be the LAST time. Tune in to learn all about incidence, risk factors, clinical presentation, and treatment for LAST. If you administer local anesthetics, this is a show that you don’t want to miss. © 2021, The Anesthesia Patient Saf...
Feb 23, 2021•20 min
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 heading into the APSF Newsletter archives to review the article, “Intralipid Treatment of Bupivacaine Toxicity” by Pete Stiles and Richard Prielipp that appeared in the Spring 2009 APSF Newsletter. This will not be the “LAST” show where we discuss local anesthetic systemic toxicity. In fact, it is part of a ...
Feb 16, 2021•16 min
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 review the article from the February 2018 ASPF Newsletter, “Use of Methadone in the Perioperative Period” by Murphy and Szokol. So, what is the big deal with Methadone, what makes this a unique opioid analgesic, and why are we seeing an increasing role for perioperative methadone administration? Tune in to find ...
Feb 09, 2021•16 min
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. You are sure to be attracted to our Rapid Response to questions from our readers show today as we review the article, “Airway Emergencies and Safety in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Suite” from the APSF February 2020 Newsletter. Tune in to learn more about how to keep your patients safe in case of an airway emergency n...
Feb 02, 2021•15 min
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. You do not want to miss this show with exclusive insights on the relationship between technology and anesthesia patient safety from Dr. Bob Thiele. We are also doing a re-boot of the Winter 2013 article, “Training Anesthesia Professionals to Use Advanced Medical Technology.” Tune in to learn more about important considera...
Jan 26, 2021•16 min
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 back the exciting sequel to last week’s episode. We return to the world of pediatric anesthesia today and talking about the effect of anesthesia agents on the developing brain. We look at “What Now” from the October 2020 article by Luke Janik, MD “The Effect of General Anesthesia on the Developing Brain: Is ...
Jan 19, 2021•16 min
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 exploring the world of pediatric anesthesia today and talking about the effect of anesthesia agents on the developing brain. This is Part One where we look at “What Then” from the 2016 article by Luke Janik, MD “The Effect of General Anesthesia on the Developing Brain: Appreciating Parent Concerns While Allaying Th...
Jan 12, 2021•15 min
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 return to the Rapid Response to questions from our readers section to review the case of the retained guidewire during lumbar drain placement. Has this ever happened to you? Tune in to find out what happened and learn more about this potential complication. The Rapid Response column represents an important collaboratio...
Jan 05, 2021•15 min
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. For the last show of 2020, we return to the updated APSF Novel Coronavirus Anesthesia Resource Center to talk about the recently released joint statement by the ASA and APSF regarding elective surgery for patients who have recovered from COVID-19. Join us to learn more about isolation precautions, timing for elective surg...
Dec 27, 2020•17 min
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 APSF Novel Coronavirus Anesthesia Resource Center. Today on the show we review the use of Powered Air-Purifying Respirators in the operating room. We also dive into the frequently asked questions related to wellness during the Covid-19 pandemic. Take a big deep breath and tune in for some tips...
Dec 15, 2020•13 min
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 ready to hit the road and talk about Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) and anesthesia patient safety? Join us as we review the article from the June 2019 APSF Newsletter, “ERAS: Roadmap For A Safe Perioperative Journey” by Rebecca Blumenthal, MD. Spoiler alert: Some of the benefits of ERAS include decreased o...
Dec 08, 2020•16 min
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 a special two-part podcast where we look at the rising maternal mortality rates in the United States and what steps are being taken to reverse this concerning trend. Please join us to learn about Maternal Safety Bundles and the role of anesthesia professionals as peripartum physicians and advocates for improved ma...
Dec 01, 2020•13 min
