The Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine Society (APMS) held its first meeting on March 17 at 4 p.m. in room 125 of the Oakland Center.  The meeting introduced the leadership team, outlined the ...

New American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) guidelines, published online November 30 in Pediatrics, identify key components for the pediatric perioperative anesthesia environment to optimize anesthetic ...

Behavioral and cultural factors: If teams anticipate inefficiency or delays because that’s the norm, then they stop attempting to optimize the schedule. Surgeons do not add cases, schedulers leave ...

Can you please give an overview of perioperative practice? How does it differ from generalised practice? Perioperative practice is quite a specialised area focused on patients who are undergoing ...

Perioperative care is a critical part of the patient journey. Encompassing the time before, during, and after surgery, perioperative care is a collaborative process that allows clinicians to review a ...

The electronic health records company Allscripts has released a software solution for the perioperative environment, Allscripts Sunrise Surgical Care. The solution, developed for Allscripts Sunrise ...

A new clinical audit tool designed to transform how risk management strategies are identified and implemented within the operating theatre environment has been launched. The Association for ...

Danielle Quintana, certified perioperative nurse and assistant clinical professor at the University of Houston College of Nursing, has conducted the first concept analysis on surgical conscience among ...

In the United States, the full continuum of care before, during, and after surgery is expensive, fragmented, and associated with a high number of complications. We believe the current segmented care ...