Alex Hannenberg
Alexander Hannenberg, M.D. is a faculty member in the Safe Surgery Program at Ariadne Labs. His work has focused on the implementation of Crisis Checklists for critical event management in the operating room and beyond and development of a novel and scalable simulation training tool. He is also a founding Board Member of Lifebox USA, working on Lifebox safe surgery programs around the world, with a particular focus in Latin America.
He is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology at Tufts University School of Medicine and was Associate Chair of Anesthesiology at Newton-Wellesley Hospital. He is a past president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) and served as its inaugural Chief Quality Officer. He previously led the development of physician quality measures in anesthesiology and critical care for the AMA Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement. He served on the national Council on Surgical and Perioperative Safety and was chair of its Board in 2013. He led the creation of the Anesthesia Quality Institute (AQI) and its National Anesthesia Clinical Outcomes Registry. He has been recognized with the ASA’s highest honor, its Distinguished Service Award, and was elected to honorary membership in the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland. Alex received his A.B. from Vassar College and his M.D. from Tufts University, followed by residency training in anesthesiology at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston.
Checklist updates drew on a multidisciplinary panel of experts When a medical crisis strikes in the operating room, there is not a second to waste. Surgical teams need to be prepared with the knowledge, supplies, and processes to respond quickly and efficiently to cases of cardiac arrest, hemorrhage, failed airways, and more. It has been… Continue reading Ariadne Labs Releases Digital Operating Room Crisis Checklists
The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) that will provide funding to EMIC to support the spread and uptake of emergency manuals.
Ariadne Labs, Stanford University and other leaders in anesthesia patient safety launched the Emergency Manuals Implementation Collaborative (EMIC) in 2011 to circulate emergency checklists for hospitals, health care associations and other medical experts. This week, EMIC is hosting its first webinar series, starting with “Customization and Modification of the Operating Room Emergency Checklist” on June… Continue reading Webinar this Week on Customizing Operating Room Emergency Checklists
Hospitals, clinics, health care associations, and hospital systems are continually exploring new ways to strengthen patient safety. Ariadne Labs and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Executive and Continuing Professional Education are collaborating to offer a new custom course, Creating High Impact Tools to Improve Clinical Effectiveness, to enable organizations to create and use checklists for better quality… Continue reading Ariadne and HSPH offer new custom course on checklist design and use for quality and safety
The Safe Surgery/Safe Systems team publish their conceptual framework for team-based morbidity and mortality conferences in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.
Safe Surgery/Safe Systems team conducted a national survey of perioperative healthcare professionals to explore opinions on morbidity and mortality conferences (MMCs) and team-based morbidity and mortality conferences (TBMMs).
A decade after the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist was introduced, researchers examined its use by surgeons around the world and found most reported it enhanced patient safety.
