Quality and Safety in Anesthesia and Perioperative Care

Keith J. Ruskin is a Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois.Marjorie P. Stiegler is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.Stanley H. Rosenbaum is a Professor of Anesthesiology, Medicine, and Surgery at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.

Quality and Safety in Anesthesia and Perioperative Care is a superb introductory text to this topic for residents or fellows with a special interest in this area, anesthesiologists who may be charged with leading all or certain aspects of quality and safety in the operating room and nonoperating room anesthesia locations (eg. endoscopy), and hospital administrators wishing to develop new ways to train their workforce.

• Part I. Scientific Foundations 1. Patient Safety: A Brief History2. Cognitive Load Theory and Patient Safety3. Errors and Violations4. The Human-Technology Interface5. Deliberate Practice and Acquisition of Expertise6. Fatigue7. Situational Awareness8. Creating a Culture of Safety Part II. Clinical Applications 9. Adverse Event Prevention and Management10. Complex Systems and Approaches to Quality Improvement11. Crisis Resource Management and Patient Safety in Anesthesia Practice12. Quality in Medical Education13. Regulating Quality14. Creating a Quality Management Program15. Health Information Technology Use for Quality Assurance and Improvement16. Safety in Remote Locations17. Medication Safety18. Operating Room Fires and Electrical Safety19. Disruptive Behavior: The Imperative for Awareness and Action20. Managing Adverse Events: The Aftermath and The Second Victim Effect