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David Smith, MD

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I am a physician on the faculty of the School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, My spcialty interest is Anesthesiology with a subspeciality interest in anesthesia for brain and spinal cord surgery (neuroanesthesia). I am also very much involved with issues related... Full Bio
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Preventing Wrong Site Surgery – A Quarterly Update From The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority (PSA)

Of particular interest is that the number of reports for wrong site surgery in Pennsylvania appear to be declining.  However, wrong...
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Separating analgesic from respiratory effects of narcotics

In a rodent study published in the June 2009 issue of Anesthesiology, Ren et al begins to separate the analgesic from the respiratory...
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Protecting patients from unknown hazards

Peter Pronovost’s very productive group examines a process by which previously unknown hazards that may be associated with the...
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Retained objects -- anesthesia related

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has a section called case and commentary some of which are of interest to...
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Wrong site surgery – the five year national experience

  From the August 2009 Newsletter of the Premier Safety Institute   With 2,700 cases of wrong-site surgery continuing to...
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