Concerns with Perioperative Testing for the COVID-19 Virus
July 30, 2020
We read with enthusiasm the timely press release: The ASA and APSF Joint Statement on Perioperative Testing for the COVID-19 Virus. The authors recommend that patients should…
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July 30, 2020
We read with enthusiasm the timely press release: The ASA and APSF Joint Statement on Perioperative Testing for the COVID-19 Virus. The authors recommend that patients should…
July 27, 2020
The current COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented and being such, it is ushering in change and requiring us as a nation to think on our feet and make things up as we go. Hospitals as a whole have heightened scrutiny…
July 15, 2020
As of July 2020, there have been over 3.1 million people diagnosed with COVID-19 and over 132,000 deaths in the United States. It is widely known that screening and diagnostic tests are sparse…
July 8, 2020
Since the first COVID-19 diagnosis in the United States in mid-January of 2020, there has been a rapid increase in the incidence of the disease and deaths from it. The United States now leads the world with the largest number of confirmed cases…
July 2, 2020
We read with great interest the publication of the letter “Medication Error Related to Look-Alike Prefilled Syringes”, a letter which was a response to the letter previously published entitled “’No Read’ Errors Related to Prefilled Syringes”…
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…