Standards and Guidelines

• ASA Difficult Airway Algorithm

• ASA Standards for Patient Monitoring

• FDA Recognized Consensus Standards: Anesthesia

Organizations

• American Association of Nurse Anesthetists

• American Society of Anesthesiologists

• American Society of Perianesthesia Nurses

• FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health:

• information about safety of medical devices

• Institute for Safe Medication Practices:

• Medication safety alerts, error reporting, self assessment of safety practices. Most comprehensive site for medication safety issues.

• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

• (JCAHO): standards, filing complaints, patient safety goals

• Malignant Hyperthermia Association of the United States

• National Patient Safety Foundation

• (NPSF): Extensive list of patient safety websites, patient information, annual patient safety congress announcement, research funding, listserv archive

Safety alerts

• FDA Safety Alerts

• FDA MDR reports database search:

• search files to identify reports of medical device problems and compare to one you are experiencing or before purchasing equipment

• Emergency Care Research Institute

• (ECRI): medical device safety focus.  Current hazard alerts.  Accident and forensic investigation services.

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