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OCTOBER 31, 2022

Safety of Anesthetic and Perioperative Medication Practices

Tricia A. Meyer, PharmD, MS, FASHP, FTSHP
Adjunct Professor of Anesthesiology
Texas A&M College of Medicine
Temple
Meyer reported no relevant financial disclosures.

The perioperative setting is potentially a much higher area of risk than other areas of the hospital.

Introduction

A 2016 study from researchers at Johns Hopkins analyzed medical death rate data over an eight-year period. The study found more than 250,000 deaths per year are due to medical errors. This number would place medical errors