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August 2001
Volume 65 |
Number 8
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| NPSF Awards
$5,000 to APSF in Honor of Ellison C. Pierce, Jr., M.D. |
Robert K. Stoelting, M.D.
APSF President
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In recognition of his exhaustive and successful efforts
toward the improvement of patient safety, the National Patient
Safety Foundation (NPSF) has awarded $5,000 to the Anesthesia
Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) in honor of Ellison C.
“Jeep” Pierce, Jr., M.D.
Although there is no question that the incredible gains
in patient safety achieved in the past two decades are due
to a collective effort in the anesthesiology community,
it would not be unrealistic to say that Dr. Pierce was the
driving force behind that collective effort.
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Ellison C. Pierce, Jr., M.D. |
As ASA President in 1983, Dr Pierce set an important precedent
in anesthesiology by creating the Committee on Patient Safety
and Risk Management. It was the first of its kind in any health
care organization and has been credited with coining the now ubiquitous
term “patient safety.”
In 1985, under Dr. Pierce’s leadership, the APSF was born
and represented another patient safety “first.” Perhaps
more so than any other organization, APSF is recognized as having
had the most profound impact on the dramatic improvements in reducing
anesthesia risk and adverse outcomes during the last 20 years.
APSF today remains as active and vital in the realm of patient
safety as it was during its inception.
Dr. Pierce’s efforts did not wane in the years after APSF
gained prominence. In the late 1990s, he was instrumental in the
development of NPSF. Dr. Pierce has served on the NPSF Board of
Directors and its Executive Committee and has been a selfless
guide and mentor who helped shape NPSF’s vision and mission.
And so the organization that might not have existed were it not
for his wisdom offers this award to a tireless pioneer: Dr. Jeep
Pierce, a name synonymous with patient safety, advancement and
achievement.
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APSF Offers 11 Web-Based
Videotapes
The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) has
posted 11 ASA Patient Safety Videotapes to the APSF
Web site since its last report in the March 2000 ASA
NEWSLETTER. The high-quality, streaming videos
are available through the GASNet™ Web site at
<www.gasnet.org/societies/apsf/clinical/video/video.html>.
To view the videotapes, access the above URL and
click on the RealNetworks link that appears at the
top of the page. From the RealNetworks Web site, one
can download RealPlayer 8 for free by clicking on
the words “RealPlayer” that appear on the
banner near the top of the homepage. From there, just
click on the link “RealPlayer 8 Basic” and
follow the ensuing instructions.
The videos are available exclusively through the
Internet and are no longer available in VHS videotape
format. The new videos listed on the Web site are
as follows:
• Crisis Management
• Drug Errors in Anesthesia
• Fatigue: Implications for the Anesthesiologist
• Crisis Management in Anesthesiology
• Drug Errors in Anesthesia
• Infection Control in Anesthesia Practice
• Safety in Pediatric Anesthesia
• Perioperative Nerve Injury
• Production Pressure in Anesthesiology
• Anesthesia in Remote Locations
• Practice Guidelines for Sedation and Analgesia
by Nonanesthesiologists
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Residents’ Research
Award Recipients Honored
Michael K. Cahalan, M.D., Chair, Committee on Research,
has announced that the committee will award prizes
for the following three entries in the 2001 ASA Residents’
Research Essay Contest:
First Prize
Carsten Bantel, M.D., Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem,
North Carolina, for: “The Paradoxical Role of
Adenosine Receptors in Spinal G-Protein Activation
Following Peripheral Nerve Injury.”
Second Prize
Markus W. Hollmann, M.D., University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, Virginia, for: “Inhibition of
M3 Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptors by Local Anesthetics.”
Third Prize
Esther M. Pogatzki, M.D., University of Iowa, Iowa
City, Iowa, for: “Peripheral and Central Sensitization
After Plantar Incision in the Rat Hindpaw.”
Recipients receive a plaque and cash award to acknowledge
their achievement and will present their papers at
the awards ceremony and oral scientific poster presentation
during the ASA Annual Meeting in New Orleans on Sunday,
October 14, at 9 a.m. at the House of Delegates meeting
in the New Orleans Marriott.
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