Physician Surveyor at The Joint Commission. The postings on this site are my own and do not represent the views of The Joint Commission.
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Charles Murphy, MD retweeted
12 Dec 2025
🚨National Patient Safety Alert🚨
A new alert has been issued in response to the risk of harm from incorrectly assembled breathing circuits lacking proper exhalation routes for patients receiving invasive or non-invasive ventilatory support. pslhub.org/learn/improving-p…
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🔥 High-risk airway
Anterior mediastinal masses can collapse the airway great vessels during anesthesia.
Let’s review red flags, risk scores, imaging, and the need for spontaneous ventilation early planning.
#APSF #PatientSafety #AirwayManagement
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In cardiac anesthesia, the biggest safety gains came from systems:
🩸Restrictive transfusion
🫘 AKI-prevention strategies
❤️ AF-prevention bundles
📋ERAS Cardiac
#patientsafety #CardiacAnesthesia #anesthesia #anesthesiology
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Charles Murphy, MD retweeted
11 Nov 2025
🗨️We have found that when staff have a safe and trusted route to raise issues then all manner of issues can become visible to the leadership🗨️
Changing attitudes and patterns of behaviour in the workplace: An interview with Shaun Keep and Paul Adams. pslhub.org/learn/culture/goo…
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Adverse events in #airway management leading to severe injury most commonly occur during emergencies and outside of the elective OR setting. Go to the October 2025 #APSFNewsletter to read more! #anesthesia #anesthesiology #patientsafety
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🤰🏽 Check out the latest #APSFPodcast on maternal safety! Special thanks to Nihon Kohden for their continued support of APSF. Don’t forget to lilke, subscribe, and review! #obanes #patientsafety
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Charles Murphy, MD retweeted
29 Oct 2025
🏥 Sterile compounding compliance is improving, but immediate-use compounding still trips up hospitals. See what the Joint Commission cites most often and tips to stay survey-ready ➡️ pharmacypracticenews.com/a/8… #Pharmacy #SterileCompounding #PatientSafety
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Charles Murphy, MD retweeted
31 Oct 2025
Happy Halloween. Posting UPMC 6-7 Impella 5.5 best practices…Early shock team activation, complete hemodynamics in first 6 hours, use of Impella Order Set, hemodynamic monitoring q2-4h until lactate clear, GDMT on support for weaning, use of weaning algorithm! 7 -ambulate!
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Charles Murphy, MD retweeted
23 Oct 2025
🗨️This underlines why observing Work as Done is always beneficial: it allows us to see the realities of practice, understand where systems are fragile, and identify opportunities to strengthen them before harm occurs.🗨️
New blog on the hub this week⬇️
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🤰🏽🩺 Fever isn’t always there. > 1 in 4 women who died of maternal sepsis never had one. This #APSFPodcast covers early detection, rapid antibiotics, TXA timing, & VTE prevention.
Special thanks to @eminaoum; Beth Clayton, CRNA; & Lisa Leffert, MD.
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Charles Murphy, MD retweeted
23 Oct 2025
This week is International Infection Prevention Week (Oct. 19–25), organized by @APIC. This year's theme is "Stand UPPP for Infection Prevention"—with UPPP standing for Unite, Protect, Prevent, Prevail.
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17 Oct 2025
Please read if you are involved with patient safety #PatientSafety #pharmacy
15 Oct 2025
PSA received a report describing a fatal medication error that highlights persistent risks involving wrong drug events: A patient prescribed medication typically used to treat high blood calcium levels inadvertently received a fatal dose of a neuromuscular blocking agent instead.
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Have you ever swapped the wrong medication because the vials looked similar? This is a serious issue in #anesthesia - what would you do in this situation? When is “just read the vial” not enough?
#lookalikevials #APSF #patientsafety
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Do checklists really help?
In a The New England Journal of Medicine simulation study, checklists for critical events reduced the chance of missing key management steps by
a. 0%
b. 20%
c. 75%
d. 100%
Answer in the video.
#maternalhealth #patientsafety
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24 Aug 2025
Congrats @TommyFleetwood1 !! Well deserved and thrilled for you! Hard work, resilience and determination paid off! Thanks for being a good guy!!🎉🏆
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Charles Murphy, MD retweeted
11 Aug 2025
When was the last time you paused to assess your own burnout level? This week, take 5 minutes to check in with yourself. What's your energy level? Your sense of purpose? Your joy in your work? #BurnoutBreakthrough #BairdGroup #SelfCareMatters
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Charles Murphy, MD retweeted
30 Jul 2025
Top picks: Key resources for maternity safety. pslhub.org/learn/patient-saf… #patientsafety
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Charles Murphy, MD retweeted
15 Jul 2025
Available on the hub, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh's top 10 tips for surgical safety using the SEIPS (Safety Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety) model.
▶️pslhub.org/learn/patient-saf… #patientsafety
ALT An image of a Safety Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPs) model analysis which sets out 10 top tips for surgical safety, produced by the Royal College of Surgeon's of Edinburgh. It contains six text boxes in different colours which each contain information relating to the following headings: Tasks, Tools/Technology, Person, External Influences, Internal Environment and Organisation.
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Charles Murphy, MD retweeted
29 Jun 2025
Today our team of volunteers @NYSCACC successfully engaged & empowered the Queens community to take care of their ❤️s with -
Blood Pressure screenings
Individual counseling
Education on ❤️ disease risk factors & how to modify them
Every ❤️ matters
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