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.

“We need to do a better job of explaining how alarms work and what to expect if they go off.”

Dr. Steven D. Hanks, Executive Vice-President and Chief Medical Officer for the Hospital of Central Connecticut

“Monitoring patients for how much carbon dioxide they are breathing out with capnography provides us with the earliest possible indicator to detect the onset of opioid-induced respiratory depression. Continuously electronically monitoring with capnography will save lives.”

Dr. Cheryl Wibbens, Chief Medical Officer at Memorial Hospital