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 preview episode all about how you can get the most out of Anesthesiology 2023. We discuss APSF featured events and ways to contribute to APSF! We would love to see you in person at the APSF booth or virtually by tagging us @APSForg. Plus, we are doing a dive into the literature on chronic post-...
Oct 10, 2023•10 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 used a distal pharyngeal airway? Do you use a Pyxis machine to retrieve medications? Today, we have a couple Articles Between Issues to discuss about keeping patients safe especially from hypoxemia in the GI Suite with the help of a DPA and when using an automated drug dispensing cabinet or Pyxis machine. Tune in...
Oct 03, 2023•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 for a Rapid Response to Questions from our Readers show. Our topics today include endotracheal tube cuff failure and changes in drug dilution for infusions in the operating room. Plus, we hear from the manufacturers in response to the cases. Are you performing a pre-induction check of the pilot balloon and ETT cuf...
Sep 26, 2023•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. Anesthesia professionals have a critical role for monitoring patients, recognizing physiologic changes that require intervention, and taking the appropriate steps to keep patients safe during anesthesia care. Tune in today as we discuss the need for safe and effective medical alarms. Spoiler alert: Alarm design and optimi...
Sep 19, 2023•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 the volume up and the flows down today as we return to episode #110 for a review on how to keep patients safe during low-flow anesthesia. Spoiler alert: Low-flow anesthesia is safe with knowledge of the circle system, appropriate fresh gas flows and vaporizer concentrations for the patient, and continuous m...
Sep 12, 2023•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 discussing quantitative monitors for neuromuscular blockade with updated practice guidelines to help keep patients safe. The big takeaway from the new guidelines is that quantitative monitoring is recommended to ensure a TOF ratio greater than or equal to 0.9, and the best location is the adductor pollicis m...
Sep 05, 2023•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 continuing the conversation about Perioperative Brain Health on the show today for part 2 of our two-part series. Tune in for a discussion of the following strategies to help keep patients safe from delirium and cognitive decline during anesthesia care: EEG-based anesthetic depth monitoring, comprehensive programs ...
Aug 29, 2023•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. 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 taking steps to decrease perioperative neurocognitive disorders. Join us today as we discuss using a mult...
Aug 22, 2023•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 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 opioid-induced respiratory depression to help keep patients safe. Additional sound effects from: Zaps...
Aug 15, 2023•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. 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 patient safety considerations related to opioid-induced respiratory depression that we are talking abo...
Aug 08, 2023•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. 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 reviewing the new guidance from the American Society of Anesthesiologists for patients taking GLP-1 recept...
Aug 01, 2023•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 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 how to keep patients taking GLP-1 receptor agonists safe during anesthesia care. Additional sound ef...
Jul 25, 2023•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. 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 risk, effective communication and teamwork, and culture of safety. Join us for a literature review and ...
Jul 18, 2023•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 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, we are reviewing several cases of pediatric transport and reviewing airway and ventilation manageme...
Jul 11, 2023•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 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 decrease these medications errors at each step of the medication use process including procuring, prescribi...
Jul 04, 2023•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. 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. This is Part 1 of a two-part series on Look-alike and Sound-alike (LASA) drugs and medication error...
Jun 27, 2023•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 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 laparoscopic surgery. Are you prepared to urgently convert from an LMA to an endotracheal tube if needed?...
Jun 20, 2023•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. 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 you can keep patients safe during anesthesia care. Today, we review preoxygenation, communication skill...
Jun 13, 2023•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. 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 you can keep patients safe during anesthesia care. Today, we review medication safety, communication sk...
Jun 06, 2023•22 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 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 different AI applications and examine some of the challenges and ethical considerations surrounding the u...
May 30, 2023•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. 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 language processing, and combining AI with clinical decision support with graphic user interfaces. Additi...
May 23, 2023•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. 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 leadership in medicine is necessary to promote patient safety. Additional sound effects from: Zapspla...
May 16, 2023•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. 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 care to keep patients safe. It also depends on effective leadership to foster an organizational culture ...
May 09, 2023•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. 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 minimizing blood product utilization and intraoperative hemodialysis. Tune in for strategies to help keep...
May 02, 2023•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 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 one of the most challenging cases in the operating rooms with frequent hemodynamic changes, the possib...
Apr 25, 2023•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. 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 show today. Join us as we discuss considerations for using smart infusion pumps during patient care....
Apr 18, 2023•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. 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 professionals need to be prepared for infection prevention in the anesthesia work environment. Additional s...
Apr 11, 2023•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 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 English proficiency safe during anesthesia care. Additional sound effects from: Zapsplat. © 2023, The Anest...
Apr 04, 2023•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. 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, and considerations for the use of supraglottic airway devices during laparoscopic surgery. Additional...
Mar 28, 2023•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 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 Management of Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting. We hope that PONV management is an integral part of your anes...
Mar 21, 2023•18 min
