To improve patient safety and health outcomes, the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation recently released recommendations calling for continuous electronic monitoring of oxygenation and ventilation. These recommendations include using capnography and oximetry monitoring on all postoperative patients.
“Serious postoperative adverse events such as deaths and anoxic brain injuries due to opioid acute pain management are a significant and preventable threat to patients, for which all institutions and healthcare providers must have zero tolerance,” said Frank Overdyk, MD, professor of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina.
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