According to an Anesthesia Business Consultants blog post, communication errors between healthcare providers during handoffs in the post-anesthesia care unit can easily occur and an increase in the ...

Organizations which use checklists to ensure proper and timely administering of antibiotics, and confirm a patient’s condition and operation, at various stages of the patient surgical process ...

PARIS, France—Focusing on the technical aspects of interventional cases is no doubt crucial, but so too is making sure that the entire team is prepared for the worst-case scenario. Cath lab ...

Patient safety checklists, long a mainstay in surgical operating rooms, still are inconsistently designed and unevenly applied among cardiac catheterization labs. Yet a paper published in the January ...

Despite the growth in use of procedural suites outside of the operating room, non-OR anesthesia (NORA) care remains a troubling concern for patient safety, experts say. Non-OR procedure suites -- such ...