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Mar 1, 2021

This piece focuses on the great work done by The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation. We turn to their specific focus on COVID 19 and then look at the wider benefits of a network dedicated to patient safety in our field.

Their section on COVID 19 is here: https://www.apsf.org/news-updates/perioperative-considerations-for-the-2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19/

Furthermore there is a remarkably prescient article by Mike Grocott and Monty Mythen on there in which we discuss, Perioperative Fluid Management: Cheers to the Dream of Moderation: https://www.apsf.org/article/perioperative-fluid-management-cheers-to-the-dream-of-moderation/

Presented by Desiree Chappell and Monty Mythen with their guest Steven Greenberg, MD, FCCP, FCCM, Editor-in-Chief, Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) Newsletter, Vice Chairperson, Education, Department of Anesthesiology, Director of Critical Care Services, Evanston Hospital NorthShore University HealthSystem, Clinical Professor, Department of Anesthesiology Critical Care, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine.