Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety

Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety (PPAHS) is an advocacy group dedicated to improving patient health and safety. PPAHS seeks to advance key patient health and safety initiatives that significantly impact patient lives and to do so in a prescriptive and practical manner.

“A checklist would help to avoid simple but recurrent errors in packaging and programming the PCA.”

Dr. Richard Dutton, Executive Director, Anesthesia Quality Institute (on checklists)

“Monitoring only SPO2 does not assess adequacy of oxygenation, especially in patients receiving oxygen post op. Also, check q 2.5 hours allow too long a time for hypoxic brain damage to occur…continuous monitoring of ETCO2 and respiratory rate must be added.”

E Frost, Icahn Medical Center at Mount Sinai