US-based non profits The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) and
Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) have jointly agreed to support the Patient Safety Movement Foundation's (PSMF) mission to eliminate preventable patient deaths by the year 2020, the organisations said.
Merry Medication Administration in Anesthesia Time for a Paradigm Shift,
Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, NEWSLETTER, Volume 22, No.
The Official Journal of the
Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation.
Both the
Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (apsf) and the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) encourage enhanced ventilation assessment to deal with adverse respiratory events; with the ASA formally adding to its practice standards the continual observation of ventilation in any patient after anesthesia.
