AQI - Anesthesia Quality Institute

AIRS data is abstracted by a committee of physicians who helped publish the case reports below, which appear each month in the ASA Monitor.

2023

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January:	Management and Prevention of Peripheral I.V. Infiltration and Extravasation
February:	When Is Too Much Enough?
March:	Anesthesia Monkey Business
April:	All the Way, or Not at All

2022

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January:	Pagers... What?s a Pager?
February:	Failure to Communicate
March:	Structured Handoffs
April:	Feedback is a Gift!
May:	First, Do No Harm: But What Harm, and to Whom?
June:	Blowing Bubbles
July:	Machines Taking Us By Surprise
August:	It’s All About the Airway. What Would You Do?
September:	The Unknown Unknowns and Their Consequences
October:	We're Not Baking Cookies Here
November:	Workin' on the Night Shift/a>
December:	Knowledge is Power, But How to Keep Up?

2021

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January:	Safe Tables ? A New Initiative from the Anesthesia Quality Institute
February:	Systems Problem
March:	All Orders Are Not Alike
April:	Measure Twice, Cut Once
May:	Now What?
June:	Up in Flames
July:	Steep Hierarchy, Steep Lessons
August:	Resilience
September:	If In Doubt
October:	Situational Awareness
November:	Ready or Not, Here We Come
December:	Avoiding the Blame Game

2020

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January:	Transnasal Humidified High Flow Nasal Oxygen - Managing the Risk of Fire
February:	All Hands on the Pump
March:	To wrap or not to wrap
April:	Radiology Contrast Anaphylaxis
May:	Case 2020 - 5
June:	Case 2020 - 6
July:	Learning from Others
August:	Case 2020 - 8
September:	A Diagnostic Dilemma
October:	Operating in a digital vacuum
November:	I Can't Take It Anymore
December:	No harm, no foul? Full disclosure in a culture of litigation

2019

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January:	Press the pedal to the metal
February:	The Sound of Music
March:	No good deed goes unpunished
April:	Water, water everywhere
May:	Diagnostic safety
June:	Case 2019-6
July:	When the gift of oblivion meets the mystery of consciousness
August:	A butterfly effect
September:	Case 2019-09
October:	Not every airway stoma is a tracheostomy
November:	Another URI dilemma
December:	Whose life is it anyway? Mandatory pregnancy testing and the concept of patient autonomy

2018

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Jan:	Case 2018-1
Feb:	Anaphylaxis in the dental chair
Mar:	Everything is not what it seems
Apr:	Switcheroo
May:	Case 2018-5
June:	Case 2018-6
July:	Case 2018-7
August:	Case 2018-8
September:	What price education
October:	Geriatric hip fracture
November:	ACDF
December:	Local confusion

2017

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2016

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2015

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2014

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2013

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2012

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2011

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