Quality and Safety in Anesthesia and Perioperative Care offers practical suggestions for improving quality of care and patient safety in the perioperative setting. Chapters are organized into sections on clinical foundations and practical applications, and emphasize strategies that support reform at all levels, from operating room practices to institutional procedures. Written by leading experts in their fields, chapters are based on accepted safety, human performance, and quality management science and they illustrate the benefits of collaboration between medical professionals and human factors experts. The book highlights concepts such as situation awareness, staff resource management, threat and error management, checklists, explicit practices for monitoring, and safety culture. Quality and Safety in Anesthesia and Perioperative Care is a must-have resource for those preparing for the quality and safety questions on the American Board of Anesthesiology certification examinations, as well as clinicians and trainees in all practice settings.

Keith J. Ruskin is a Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. Marjorie P. Stiegler is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Stanley H. Rosenbaum is a Professor of Anesthesiology, Medicine, and Surgery at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.

Part I. Scientific Foundations
1. Patient Safety: A Brief History
2. Cognitive Load Theory and Patient Safety
3. Errors and Violations
4. The Human-Technology Interface
5. Deliberate Practice and Acquisition of Expertise
6. Fatigue
7. Situational Awareness
8. Creating a Culture of Safety
Part II. Clinical Applications
9. Adverse Event Prevention and Management
10. Complex Systems and Approaches to Quality Improvement
11. Crisis Resource Management and Patient Safety in Anesthesia Practice
12. Quality in Medical Education
13. Regulating Quality
14. Creating a Quality Management Program
15. Health Information Technology Use for Quality Assurance and Improvement
16. Safety in Remote Locations
17. Medication Safety
18. Operating Room Fires and Electrical Safety
19. Disruptive Behavior: The Imperative for Awareness and Action
20. Managing Adverse Events: The Aftermath and The Second Victim Effect