Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety: Don’t Post-Surgical Patients Deserve Better Care?: P

Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety encourages the adoption of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) recently released recommendations to improve the safety of patients by continuously monitoring patients following surgery. Patients recovering from surgery are often put on patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pumps to manage their pain. Unfortunately, the same monitoring standards that are observed in operating rooms are not always applied post-surgically. Tragically, for example, Louise Batz died from a preventable medical error after recovering knee surgery and 11-y
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