5 Key Steps to Assessing and Identifying At-Risk Patients for Respiratory Compromise
September 8, 2016
by Michael Wong, JD (Executive Director, Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety)
The cost of opioid-related adverse events, in terms of both human life and hospital expenses, remains at the forefront of the public eye. It has been estimated that yearly costs in the United States as...
5 Key Learnings to Create a Culture of Patient Safety with Capnography: Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety Releases Interview With...
August 17, 2016
The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety today released an interview with Peggy Lange, RT (Director of the Respiratory Care Department, St. Cloud Hospital) about a project that examined acute response team (ART) calls regarding patients who had received procedural or conscious sedat...
5 Keys to Reducing Harms from Opioids: A Discussion with Stephanie Uses, PharmD, MJ, JD, Patient Safety Analyst, ECRI Institute
July 25, 2016
ECRI Institute recently released the 2016 Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for Healthcare Organizations.
Of ECRIâs top 10 patient safety concerns, inadequate monitoring for respiratory depression has the greatest likelihood of preventable harm. This occurs when the patient receives opioids and...
Can Failure-to-Rescue be Improved?
April 28, 2016
by Michael Wong, JD (Executive Director, Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety)
There is a need to improve rapid response teams and code blue activations. 50% of Code Blue events involve patients receiving opioids. Moreover, unrecognized postoperative respiratory failure that resu...