Lakeland (Fla.) Surgical & Diagnostic Center uses a checklist to ensure blankets and fluids in its warming cabinet maintain acceptable temperatures. If these items in the cabinet exceed the acceptable ...

According to an Anesthesia Business Consultants blog post, communication errors between healthcare providers during handoffs in the post-anesthesia care unit can easily occur and an increase in the ...

A free discharge checklist and care transition plan for patients is available from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as part of its Care About Your Care program. Care About Your Care is an RWJF ...

Surgical safety checklists improve patient safety and even save lives. Yet anesthesiologists may be reluctant to use them in front of patients because they worry that doing so may increase patient ...

This summer, Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore plans to test an ambitious new application for tablet devices that its developers hope will significantly enhance its clinicians' use of patient ...