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Pharmacologic control of rhythm: American College of Chest Physicians guidelines for the prevention and management of postoperative atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgeryElizabeth A Martinez
Department of Anesthesia, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Chest 128:48S-55S. 2005..Most protocols continue therapy with the antiarrhythmic drug for 4 to 6 weeks following surgery, but evidence from randomized studies is lacking...- Operating room debriefingsMartin A Makary
Department of Surgery, The John Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 32:407-10, 357. 2006..This tool helps assess factors that positively and negatively contributed to an adverse event, near miss, or inefficiency during an operation-or any procedure... - Perioperative beta-blockers in high-risk patientsElizabeth A Martinez
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21287 7294, USA
J Crit Care 17:105-13. 2002..The focus of this article is to describe the evidence supporting perioperative beta-blocker use, to discuss potential barriers to their use, and to propose a strategy to improve their use... - Pharmacologic control of ventricular rate: American College of Chest Physicians guidelines for the prevention and management of postoperative atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgeryElizabeth A Martinez
Department of Anesthesia, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Chest 128:56S-60S. 2005..Agents that are proarrhythmic, such as dofetilide, or agents that are contraindicated in patients with coronary artery disease, such as flecainide and propafenone, are not recommended... 
Review article: high stakes and high risk: a focused qualitative review of hazards during cardiac surgeryElizabeth A Martinez
Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Anesth Analg 112:1061-74. 2011..Finally, there is an urgent need for studies that evaluate interventions to mitigate the inherent risks of cardiac surgery...- Cardiac surgery errors: results from the UK National Reporting and Learning SystemElizabeth A Martinez
Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Int J Qual Health Care 23:151-8. 2011..We hypothesized that the type and severity of incidents in cardiac surgery would differ in the OR compared with non-OR locations... - Toward improving patient safety through voluntary peer-to-peer assessmentDaniel W Hudson
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Rockville, MD, USA
Am J Med Qual 27:201-9. 2012..This article proposes creating and implementing a structured prospective P2P assessment model in health care, similar to that used in the nuclear power industry, to accelerate improvements in patient safety... - Variation in local institutional review board evaluations of a multicenter patient safety studyDavid A Thompson
Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, School of Nursing Division of Acute and Chronic Care, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Healthc Qual 34:33-9. 2012..The adoption of uniformity would not only reduce inefficiencies but also attenuate the perceived arbitrary nature of current IRB review processes that often inappropriately influence hypothesis-generation and study design... - Identifying and categorising patient safety hazards in cardiovascular operating rooms using an interdisciplinary approach: a multisite studyAyse P Gurses
Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
BMJ Qual Saf 21:810-8. 2012..The evidence base describing safety hazards in the cardiovascular operating room is underdeveloped but is essential to guide future safety improvement efforts... - Intermittent cardiac troponin-I screening is an effective means of surveillance for a perioperative myocardial infarctionElizabeth A Martinez
The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 19:577-82. 2005..Serial monitoring of cardiac troponin-I on postoperative days 1, 2, and 3 provides the strategy with the highest diagnostic yield for surveillance of MI... - Implementing a perioperative handoff tool to improve postprocedural patient transfersMichelle A Petrovic
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 38:135-42. 2012..The tool could be applied to any periprocedural setting in which a patient is physically transferred from the procedural location (with the associated procedural team) to a postprocedural care unit with a different care team... - Using human factors engineering to improve patient safety in the cardiovascular operating roomAyse P Gurses
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Work 41:1801-4. 2012.... - Platelet gene polymorphisms and cardiac risk assessment in vascular surgical patientsNauder Faraday
Critical Care Medicine and Department of Surgery Vascular, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Anesthesiology 101:1291-7. 2004..The authors hypothesized that platelet genotype would be an independent predictor of postoperative myocardial ischemia and would improve risk assessment when added to clinical factors... - Pilot implementation of a perioperative protocol to guide operating room-to-intensive care unit patient handoffsMichelle A Petrovic
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 26:11-6. 2012..The aim of the study was to evaluate the impact of a standardized handoff process on patient care and provider satisfaction... - Team care: beyond open and closed intensive care unitsPeter J Pronovost
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, USA
Curr Opin Crit Care 12:604-8. 2006..The purpose of this paper is to accelerate patient's exposure to the benefits of intensivists, and introduce team care in the intensive care unit... - A check-up for safety culture in "my patient care area"J Bryan Sexton
Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 33:699-703, 645. 2007..The two-page Culture Check-Up Tool, which takes 30 to 60 minutes to complete as a group exercise, can help clinicians recognize and fix culture problems... - A practical tool to identify and eliminate barriers to compliance with evidence-based guidelinesAyse P Gurses
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Quality and Safety Research Group, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 35:526-32, 485. 2009..A practical tool provides an interdisciplinary approach to identify barriers to guideline compliance and implement actions to eliminate or mitigate the effect of the barriers... - Antibiotics and perioperative infectionsMichael James
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine, 600 N Wolfe Street, Meyer 296, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol 22:571-84. 2008..In addition, special topics including likely organisms for classes of surgical procedures, endocarditis prophylaxis, and management strategies for patients with allergies will be reviewed... - Cardiac troponin I predicts short-term mortality in vascular surgery patientsLauren J Kim
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287-7294, USA
Circulation 106:2366-71. 2002..Further research is needed to determine whether intervention in these patients can improve outcome... - Reduction of regulated medical waste using lean sigma results in financial gains for hospitalJerry Stonemetz
Department Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Anesthesiol Clin 29:145-52. 2011..This article describes how anesthesiologists can lead innovation and process improvement focused on regulated medical waste reduction and cost savings using a process improvement methodology known as Lean Sigma... - Intraoperative fraction of inspired oxygen is a modifiable risk factor for surgical site infection after spinal surgeryLisa L Maragakis
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Anesthesiology 110:556-62. 2009..This study sought to identify modifiable risk factors associated with SSI after spinal surgery... - Sensitivity of routine intensive care unit surveillance for detecting myocardial ischemiaElizabeth A Martinez
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, USA
Crit Care Med 31:2302-8. 2003..Because detecting electrocardiogram evidence suggestive of prolonged postoperative myocardial ischemia is important, physicians should consider alternative strategies to detect myocardial ischemia... - Anesthetic management of patients with pulmonary hypertensionBrenda MacKnight
Department of Anesthesiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287 8711, USA
Semin Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 12:91-6. 2008..With an understanding of the underlying pathophysiology of the disease and pharmacology of these new therapies, combined with careful perioperative planning and care, these patients can safely undergo elective surgical procedures... - Removing "orange wires": surfacing and hopefully learning from mistakesPeter J Pronovost
Intensive Care Med 32:1467-9. 2006 - Thinking like a pancreas: perioperative glycemic controlElizabeth A Martinez
Anesth Analg 104:4-6. 2007