#326 Corneal Abrasions After Surgery
Eye pain in the PACU can trigger a reflex page to ophthalmology, but that reflex is not always the safest or most efficient choice. We provide considerations for perioperative corneal abrasions includ...
29 Sep 16min
#325 APSF Podcast Takeover: The HSSIB with CEO Dr. Rosie Benneyworth From The Medical Safety Podcast
A patient gets harmed, everyone wants answers, and the system too often responds with blame, silence, or a slow-moving inquiry that arrives years after the frontline has moved on. Today, we are hostin...
22 Sep 1h 33min
#324 Endotracheal Tubes Are Not All The Same
Your airway cart might look fully stocked, but one quiet change can reshape an entire intubation: a different endotracheal tube brand, a new material formulation, a redesigned cuff, or changes in diam...
15 Sep 14min
#323 How Technology Can Speed Training And Strengthen Anesthesia Patient Safety
Your first day in anesthesia can be overwhelming with so many numbers, dials, alarms, and decisions that all land at once, and the stakes are high. We sit down with Dr. Lahiru Amaratanga to ask a simp...
8 Sep 20min
#322 Designing Safer Anesthesia
The fastest way to improve anesthesia patient safety is often to stop asking people to be perfect and start redesigning the world they work in. Dr. Alli Bechtel sits down with Dr. Lahiru Amaratunge, a...
1 Sep 29min
#321 Safer Dental Anesthesia, PART 2
A dental office can feel low-stakes until the moment it isn’t. We pick up our conversation with Dr. Rita Agarwal to talk about the real-world safety gaps in dental sedation and dental anesthesia, espe...
25 Aug 27min
#320 Dental Anesthesia Safety Gaps, PART 1
A dental chair shouldn’t be a place where safety standards slip, yet that’s the reality Dr. Rita Agarwal lays out with unsettling clarity. We talk through why office-based dental sedation and dental a...
18 Aug 38min
#319 Four New Studies That Change Daily Anesthesia Safety Decisions
Ketamine for emergency intubation has a reputation for hemodynamic stability, but does the best evidence back that up when your patient is truly sick? Today, we walk through four fresh research summar...
11 Aug 15min
