APSF History Overview

The 34th Rovenstine Lecture

Forty Years Behind the Mask: Safety Revisited

Ellison C. Pierce, Jr., M.D., Associate Clinical Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Chairman Emeritus, Department of Anaesthesia, Deaconess Hospital, Boston, MA

Part 1 Introduction, on Dr. Rovenstein.

Part 2 The early days: Anesthesia in 1950's

Part 3 Anesthesia Safety and Mortality Studies in the 1950's through 1970's

Part 4 The establishment of the APSF and the ASA Closed Claims Study

Part 5 Enhancing patient safety from the 1980's through the present

Part 6 References