Patient Safety and Quality Improvement in Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine

Sally E. Rampersad is a board certified pediatric anesthesiologist and director for quality improvement in Anesthesiology at Seattle Children's Hospital and is also Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Washington, USA. Cindy B. Katz is the Quality and Safety Manager at Seattle Children's Hospital in Washington, USA.

1. Introduction Sally E. Rampersad; Part I. Design and Simulation: 2. Use of simulation and patient safety Douglas R. Thompson; 3. Using human-centered design to create a safer anesthesia workspace Eliot Grigg and Axel Roesler; Part II. QI Tools: 4. Preoccupation with failure: daily management system Aaron Dipzinski and Lynn D. Martin; 5. Lean vs. model for improvement Julianne Mendoza and David Buck; 6. Cause analysis Kristina A. Toncray; Part III. Reporting and Databases: 7. Reporting adverse events Rebecca Claure and Julianne Mendoza; 8. Learning from adverse events – Classification systems Imelda Tjia and Nathaniel Greene; 9. Databases and surgical quality improvement: pooling our data Manon Haché and Cindy B. Katz; Part IV. Putting Tools into Practice: 10. Medication safety at a pediatric hospital and Failure Modes Effects Analysis (FMEA) Lizabeth D Martin; 11. Reducing preventable clinical deterioration through the use of a safety surveillance team Joan S. Roberts and Wendy E. Murchie; Part V. People, Behavior, and Communication: 12. Nursing perspective in patient safety: quality, safety, advocacy Cindy B Katz; 13. Checklists and transitions of care: a how-to guide Daniel KW Low; 14. Communication tools to improve patient safety Kristina A. Toncray; 15. Winning hearts and minds: leading change Lynn D. Martin, Daniel K. W. Low and Sally E. Rampersad.