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 from a NORA location, the CT-suite, as we discuss an emergency response protocol for Massive Hemoptysis following CT-guided lung biopsy. This protocol is a vital step towards improved communication and teamwork in a multidisciplinary team to respond quickly in an emergency. The goals for the protocol include...
Jan 18, 2022•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 as we move out of the operating room and head offsite to discuss keeping patients safe during non-operating room anesthesia (NORA). The focus for the show today is the implementation of a time-out checklist in NORA. We also discuss a rare and catastrophic case of massive hemoptysis during a NORA procedure an...
Jan 11, 2022•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. The theme for our first show of 2022 is maternal patient safety with a spotlight on iron deficiency anemia in pregnancy. Tune in to learn more about the diagnosis, treatment options, and the role for anesthesia professionals. Plus, we have exclusive content from one of the authors that you do not want to miss. © 2022, The...
Jan 04, 2022•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. Do you provide nitrous oxide for labor analgesia on your labor and delivery units? Tune in today as we review the efficacy of this medication as well as the maternal, fetal, and occupational safety considerations. Plus, we have APSF Grant Recipient, Vesela Kovacheva, on the show today to discuss her exciting project and p...
Dec 28, 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. Have you placed a Laryngeal Mask Airway recently? Was it for routine use during general anesthesia or as part of the difficult airway algorithm or was it for a non-standard clinical practice? Join us today for Part 2 of our series to learn about LMAs and the safe use of this device in clinical practice. © 2021, The Anesth...
Dec 21, 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. Have you placed a Laryngeal Mask Airway recently? Was it for routine use during general anesthesia or as part of the difficult airway algorithm or was it for a non-standard clinical practice? Join us today to learn about LMAs and the use of this device in clinical practice. Plus, we have exclusive content from Shauna Schw...
Dec 14, 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. Join us for the exciting conclusion to our two part series on Luer connections. Today, we review the article “Managing Luer Connections” by Bruce Hansel. We dive into strategies for making, managing, and monitoring luer connections to help keep patients safe. © 2021, The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation For show notes...
Dec 07, 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 are luring you into the October 2021 APSF Newsletter. Join us for a Rapid Response to questions from our readers show. To kick things off, we are reviewing a case of air entrainment during aspiration of an extension set connected to a central venous line related to the Luer device. We continue with a review of this sim...
Nov 30, 2021•12 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 for an encore presentation of Episode 6. We 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 important for patient safety and how to help strengthen this relationship. © 2021, Th...
Nov 23, 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. Join us today as we learn about the adoption and diffusion of an innovation, the Difficult Airway Response Team program at Kootenai Health Hospital in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho adapted from the DART program at Johns Hopkins Hospital. We are discussing the who, what, where, when, and how to identify high-risk patients, be prepa...
Nov 16, 2021•24 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 back to talk about a very important vital sign during and after anesthesia care – blood pressure. Last week, we discussed associations with perioperative hypotension. Today, we continue the conversation and review considerations for blood pressure management and hemodynamic goals in the operating room and during th...
Nov 09, 2021•13 min•Ep. 71
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 cycling the blood pressure cuff or placing an arterial line, it is vital to monitor the blood pressure closely during anesthesia care. What happens when patients experience hypotension during the perioperative period? Tune in to learn more about the associations between hypotension and postoperative mortal...
Nov 02, 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 is the final show in our four part series on the 2021 APSF Stoelting Conference, “Clinician Safety, To Care is Human.” We are answering some questions from the audience at the conference and discussing some calls to action that came out of the conference. Join us today for exclusive content from Della Lin and Josh L...
Oct 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. We have talked about the problems related to clinician safety and wellbeing recently. Join us today as we offer potential solutions. There is so much that departments, private practices, healthcare organizations, and societies can do to help support clinician wellbeing and there is so much that we can learn from other ind...
Oct 19, 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 for the second episode in our series on the APSF 2021 Stoelting Conference: Clinician Safety, To Care is Human. Join us to learn all about barriers and facilitators of clinician wellbeing with a focus on organizational factors, societal and governmental factors, mental health, finding purpose at work, and co...
Oct 12, 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. Join us today for a special bonus episode all about how you can get the most out of Anesthesiology 2021. We discuss APSF featured events, patient safety sessions that contribute to patient safety CME for MOCA, and ways to contribute to APSF! We would love to see you inperson at booth 2117 or virtually by tagging us @APSFo...
Oct 07, 2021•11 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 for the first episode in our series on the APSF 2021 Stoelting Conference: Clinician Safety, To Care is Human. Join us to learn all about defining the problem of clinician safety with a focus on how this relates to patient safety. Plus, we have special guest Jina Sinskey from UCSF on the show to provide some...
Oct 05, 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. Join us on the Labor and Delivery floor today as we talk about a threat to parturient safety, Postpartum Peripheral Nerve Injuries. Thank you to our guest today, Emery McCrory, for her contributions to the show today. One of the big takeaways is to make sure that patients with lower extremity nerve injuries can ambulate s...
Sep 28, 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. Today on the show, we review perioperative considerations for patients with cardiovascular implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) from Episode #9 that includes the following: Pacemakers, Implantable cardioverter defibrillators or ICDs, and cardiac resynchronization therapy or CRT. We also take a listen to the 2020 update ...
Sep 21, 2021•23 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 taking about the safe use of manifolds for IV medication administration in the operating room. Then, we dive into cases of malignant hyperthermia that survived without dantrolene therapy. Our discussion involves a review of the MH cases, MH resources, important articles, treatment options, and the Clinical G...
Sep 14, 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 turning up the flows once again. Join us as we review considerations for the use of High-Flow Nasal Oxygen (HFNO) with an emphasis on the benefits during difficult airway management balanced against the potential for increased fire risk. Spoiler alert: more research, reporting, education, and innovation is needed i...
Sep 07, 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. Do you use High-Flow Nasal Oxygen in the ICU or OR? We are turning up the flows on the show and reviewing the benefits and contraindications for the use of High-Flow Nasal Oxygen. Exclusive content on the show comes from one of the article authors, Dr. Jeremy Cooper. Join us as we discuss one of the most popular APSF arti...
Aug 31, 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. Join us today as we review a recent Joint Statement on COVID-19 vaccinations, a Q & A about patient body piercings and the risk of a burn injury, and a Rapid Response about the standard levels for relative humidity in the OR. Get ready for a packed show with vital information to help keep health care professionals and...
Aug 24, 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 reviewing one of the featured articles from the June 2020 APSF Newsletter, “Postoperative Recurarization After Sugammadex Administration Due to the Lack of Appropriate Neuromuscular Monitoring: The Japanese Experience.” Tune in to learn more about how to keep your patients safe and strong followin...
Aug 17, 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. Have you taken care of a patient with a history of methamphetamine substance use disorder recently? These patients may be complicated and challenging to manage in the operating room and on the labor and delivery unit. Tune in as we discuss implications of methamphetamine substance use disorder and perioperative considerat...
Aug 10, 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. Today, we are reviewing noteworthy June 2021 articles related to anesthesia patient safety including two recent Rapid Response Articles. Spoiler alert, the field of Anesthesiology has seen significant improvements in patient safety over the past decade, but we are not done yet. Tune in to learn more about fire extinguishe...
Aug 03, 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. Join us today for more information about medication safety as we continue our review of the list of 2021 critical medication errors and hazards reported to the ISMP. Plus, we highlight the December 2020 ASA Statement on Labeling of Pharmaceuticals for Use in Anesthesiology. Tune in to learn more about important labeling c...
Jul 27, 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. Be on the look-out for look-alike medication vials to help keep patients safe. Today, we are talking about the 7th APSF Patient Safety Priority, Medication Safety with exclusive content from the APSF Social Media Manager, Amy Pearson. Plus, we are diving back into the June 2021 APSF Newsletter to discuss Medication Errors...
Jul 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. We are diving into the June APSF 2021 Newsletter. That’s right, the newest release and we will be talking about a big threat to patient safety in the OR today. Our featured article is “Massive intraoperative hemorrhage” by Dhoon and colleagues. You will not want to miss our discussion of the Code Hemorrhage Response Model...
Jul 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. We are kicking off the 2nd year of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Podcast with a look back at the 2020 APSF Patient Safety Priorities before diving into the June 2021 APSF Newsletter. We discuss the updated APSF 2021 Top 10 Patient Safety Priorities. Tune in to see which priorities remain on the list and if there are any n...
Jul 06, 2021•19 min
