This piece focuses on the Anesthesia Quality Institute (AQI), founded in 2009 by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) to promote patient safety and operational efficiency in the profession. The AQI was created for the specific purpose of building and maintaining a national registry of anesthesia cases and outcomes, to enable the benchmarking of patient care in the perioperative period.

Presented by Desiree Chappell and Monty Mythen with their guests, Randall Clark, Director of The Anesthesia Quality Institute and immediate past President of The American Society of Anesthesiologists, alongside Marc Bernstein, Chief Information Officer and Executive Director and AQI Executive Director, Anesthesia Quality Institute at The American Society of Anesthesiologists.

Further reading:

https://www.asahq.org/aqi

https://www.asahq.org/shop-asa