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Quality and Patient Safety

The Quality and Patient Safety Committee is committed to provide and promote the dialogue around patient safety and quality improvement in order to best serve our patients and CAS members. The committee continues to support and establish initiatives which address patient safety concerns such as safe medication practices, workplace human factors, QI-methodology and equal access to resources and learnings for all communities. The committee also continues to engage with other CAS Committees such as Standards, CAIRS, Ethics & EDI, as well as advising the CAS Board of Directors regarding patient safety and quality improvement matters.

What's New?

CAS has released a medication safety bulletin, with regards to the Sandoz Ketamine Hydrochloride shortages in Canada. Please download and share with your colleagues.

CAS Medication Shortage Bulletin - Ketamine Hydrochloride

Date: February 24th, 2023
File Format: PDF

The committee has released its latest safety bulletin. It will be available in the upcoming March issue of the Anesthesia News newsletter.

March 2023 - Equity: The Forgotten QI Element

Events

Events led by the Quality and Patient Safety Committee are listed below. Click on the image for event details.

CAS Medication Safety Webinar - February 16, 2023

If you missed the event, you can view a video of the presentation on the CAS member portal, under Member Only Videos.

Medication Safety Webinar Video

Safety Bulletins

Below are Quality and Patient Committee Safety Bulletins. Each bulletin will be accompanied by key resources related to its field.

This Safety Bulletin initiative is in collaboration with CAIRS (Canadian Anesthetic Incident Reporting System). Our objective is to alert physicians to important safety events, recent trends, and whenever possible to provide guidance and or access to resources worth discussing (maybe even implementing) at a local level. These will also appear in select issues of the Anesthesia News. All files open as PDFs.

June 2022 - Medication Safety	December 2021 - Wrong Sided Blocks

Training and Certification Opportunities

Below are a list of opportunities for training and certification in quality and patient safety.

Download Full List

(Excel file, 110 KB)

This information was last updated April, 2021.

For the most updated information, please visit the individual websites.

If you have any additions/corrections to contribute to this spreadsheet, please contact the Chair of the Quality and Patient Safety Committee.

Useful Links

Enhanced Recovery Canada (Best practice guides for perioperative management in colorectal, gynecologic and orthopedic surgeries)
Ready for my Surgery (Canadian patients' guide through the perioperative process) https://www.readyformysurgery.com
Canadian Anesthesia Incident Reporting System (CAIRS) https://cairs.ca/
Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) https://www.apsf.org
Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada (ISMP) https://www.ismp-canada.org/index.htm
Healthcare Excellence Canada https://www.healthcareexcellence.ca

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If you have a question for the committee, please contact us.

Committee Members

Dr Conor Mc Donnell, Chair
Dr Lucie Filteau, Past Chair
Dr Gregory Dobson
Dr Claudia Paola Gomez, Physician Wellness Rep
Dr David Hakim
Dr Esther Shin Hyun Kang
Dr Niveditha Karuppiah
Dr Maha Said Al Mandhari
Dr Kelly Mayson
Dr Dolores McKeen
Dr Kowe Olajide
Dr Melissa Setiawan
Dr Kathryn Sparrow
Dr Vanessa Sweet
Dr Mullein Thorleifson
Ms Cristina Mita