Patient Safety

ASA offers a variety of Patient Safety courses in various formats to give you access to the learning you need. The following courses help to fulfill the 20 CME for Part 2 of the ABA’s MOCA requirements. 

NEW! ASA and Institute for Healthcare Improvement/National Patient Safety Foundation have partnered to offer a special 20% discount on the Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS) review course and certification exam to all ASA members. Find out more about this certification and its impact from an ASA member. Advance patient safety and your professional goals by becoming certified in patient safety today. You can schedule your exam today, and find your the discount code.

Fundamentals of Patient Safety - ASA Best-Seller!
This interactive, online CME course covers patient safety principles reinforced with anesthesia-specific scenarios and examples. Case studies, quizzes and exercises within the course provide ample opportunity to apply patient safety concepts to the practice of anesthesiology.

• NEW! Approved by the Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety for 10 CPPS CE hours.
• Approved as a MOC Part 2 CME activity by the following ABMS Member Boards: Anesthesiology, Ophthalmology, Thoracic Surgery and Urology.

Patient Safety Highlights 2019
Access valuable content from patient safety sessions at ANESTHESIOLOGY^® 2019 presented by faculty distinguished in their practice, research and patient care. Topics range from ambulatory anesthesia and critical care medicine to obstetric anesthesia and professional issues.

New! IV Infiltration and Extravasation
Improve patient safety by learning about incidence and risks for IV infiltration and extravasation, which medications and patients are high risk, and how to diagnose and treat the potential injury immediately. 

• Earn Quality Improvement (Part 4) credit with the IV Infiltration and Extravasation Quality Improvement module. 

Patient Safety Online Modules
Advance your patient safety skills and ensure your patients get the best quality of care. Choose from a broad list of patient safety-focused topics that will help you fill knowledge gaps. Many topics have been approved as MOC Part 2 CME activities for a variety of ABMS Member Boards.

Now available! Save 15% when you bundle patient safety courses by track. Current bundled tracks include:

• Ambulatory
• Cardiac
• Pediatric
• Professional Issues
• Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain

Utilize registries to report outcomes
Registries are the modern-day method to remain vigilant and ensure high-quality patient care, and physician anesthesiologists are at the helm of patient safety. Submit quality data to AQI registries—NACOR, AIRS and Closed Claims—and demonstrate commitment to patient safety.        

Save time with automatic CME submission
Provide ASA with your ABA number and ASA will automatically report your credits to the ABA when you complete your course work.

Educate the entire care team! Contact Mike Thill at (847) 268-9187 or m.thill@asahq.org for more information.