Every patient who undergoes surgery places tremendous trust in the medical team, including the anesthesiologist or CRNA. Anesthesia allows patients to undergo procedures without pain or awareness. It ...

The family of a patient who died under anesthesia during a procedure at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago has joined the hospital’s safety committee to help prevent future errors, ...

Two new studies on errors in regional anesthesia have found that ampule errors, syringe swaps and confusion over epidurals and IV lines are among the most common causes of drug-related issues, ...

New guidance published in Anaesthesia (the journal of the Association of Anaesthetists) provides clear advice to reduce avoidable errors on all steps of the pathway involving injectable medications ...