Volume 69 Numbers 1 & 2 January/March 2002	back to contents

The Mount Sinai Hospital’s Role in the Development of Anesthesia Safety Standards	12–17
Leslie Rendell-Baker, M.D., F.R.C.A.

Address correspondence to Leslie Rendell-Baker, M.D., F.R.C.A., Emeritus Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, Loma Linda University, School of Medicine, 11234 Anderson Street, Loma Linda, CA 92350.

Dr. Rendell-Baker served from 1962–1968 as chairman and from 1968–1979 as vice chairman of the Z79 Anesthesia Standards Committee of the American National Standards Association. From 1972–1976 he was chairman of the FDA Anesthetic Devices Classification Panel, and from 1975–1979 he was a member of the Board of Directors of the American National Standards Institute.

ABSTRACT

The Department of Anesthesiology of The Mount Sinai Hospital was closely involved in introducing anesthesia safety standards for anesthesia breathing systems, the introduction of the first disposable plastic anesthesia breathing system, the layout of the controls on gas machines, nontoxic airways, safe ethylene oxide sterilization and safe obstetrical anesthesia.

KEYWORDS

Safety standards, anesthesia.

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