Chair: Priti G. Dalal, MBBS, MD, FRCA
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Vice-Chair: Anna Clebone, MD
Mission:
Strive continuously to improve QUALITY and SAFETY of care in Pediatric Anesthesia
Goals:
- Promoting an environment of continuous process improvement
- Identifying current key quality issues for Pediatric Anesthesia
- Planning and implementing these changes/projects with endorsement from the SPA leadership
Activities and Projects:
Development of Pediatric Emergency checklists – by Checklist subcommittee
Integration and partnership with other SPA committees for quality related projects
Past and ongoing projects include:
- Recommendations for peri-operative management of Diabetes mellitus in children
- Radiation safety for Pediatric Anesthesiologists
- COVID Pediatric Airway checklist
- Intra-operative hand-off checklist
- Postoperative apnea project
- Pedi Crisis checklist
- Pedi Crisis app
The Checklist subcommittee is chaired by Dr Anna Clebone.