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Quality improvement efforts leading to improved patient safety continue to be a priority. It is imperative that groups like WUS continue to collect and analyze data so as to make anesthesia care as safe as possible.

Additional information regarding WUS and these advisories can be found on the Wake Up Safe website at http://wakeupsafe.org.

i Cooper JB, Newbower RS, Long CD, et al. Preventable anesthesia mishaps: a study of human factors. Anesthesiology 1978; 49:399-406.

ii Morray JP, Geiduschek JM, Ramamoorthy C, et al. Anesthesia-related cardiac arrest in children: initial findings of the Pediatric Perioperative Cardiac Arrest (POCA) Registry. Anesthesiology 2000; 93:6-14.

iii Tjia I, Tampersad S, Varughese A, et al. Wake Up Safe and Root Cause Analysis: Quality Improvement in Pediatric Anesthesia. Anesth Analg 2014; in press.

iv Buck D, Kurth C, Varughese A. Perspectives on Quality and Safety in Pediatric Anesthesia. Anesthesiology Clin 2014; 32:281-294.