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Authors: Samer Narouze, MD, PhD; Angie Stengel, CAE ASA Monitor January 2023, Vol. 87, 34. A year has passed since we announced our rebranding from the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine to ASRA Pain Medicine, supporting health care professionals who care for patients across the pain continuum from acute to chronic and everything in […]
Read MoreASA Monitor January 2023, Vol. 87, 13. Case presentation A 24-year-old woman, G1P0 at 41 weeks gestation, had an uneventful vaginal delivery facilitated by epidural analgesia at a medium-sized community hospital with an expanding labor and delivery service. Postpartum vaginal bleeding persisted despite administration of Pitocin and methergine. Attempts to place a Bakri uterine balloon for […]
Read MoreAuthors: Phillip J. Richardson, MD, MBA, FASA, CPE, FAACD, FACHE ; Shena J. Scott, MBA, FACMPE ASA Monitor January 2023, Vol. 87, 31. The ASA Committee on Practice Management has compiled a compendium of resources to help groups understand the process of developing a value proposition and, if necessary, respond to a request for proposal (RFP). RFP […]
Read MoreAuthor: Uday Jain, BSEE, MD, PhD, FASA ASA Monitor January 2023, Vol. 87, 29. Abstract Anesthesiologists provide anesthesia for numerous endoscopy procedures. They also perform bronchoscopy and other endoscopies. There are recent developments in mitigating endoscopy-associated infections. Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) infections, which are resistant to multiple antibiotics, have been traced to duodenal endoscopy, cystoscopy, and ureteroscopy […]
Read MoreAuthor: Michael W. Champeau, MD, FASA ASA Monitor January 2023, Vol. 87, 9. We need to band together – and stay together. We cannot let our differences drive us apart. Those words were a portion of my closing comments to the House of Delegates at its meeting in New Orleans in October. They also echo the […]
Read MoreAuthor: Catlin Nalley ASA Monitor January 2023, Vol. 87, 22. After a major surgery, there is an approximately 30% risk for serious adverse events during the first 30 postoperative days, and postoperative complications are ranked as the third most likely cause of death worldwide. “We wanted to develop a system that offered the anesthesiologist’s level of […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Baskozos, Georgios et al PAIN Reports 8(2):p e1066, March 2023. Introduction: Previous epidemiological studies of neuropathic pain have reported a range of prevalences and factors associated with the disorder. Objectives: This study aimed to verify these characteristics in a large UK cohort. Methods: A cross-sectional analysis was conducted of 148,828 UK Biobank participants who completed […]
Read MoreAuthor: Amr E. Abouleish, MD, MBA, FASA ASA Monitor January 2023, Vol. 87, 28. PRACTICE MANAGEMENT Abstract In the wake of news coverage and studies examining surgeons with overlapping surgical procedures and patient outcomes, Burns et al. examined anesthesiologists covering overlapping anesthesia cases and the staffing ratio impact on patient outcomes in this retrospective, matched cohort […]
Read MoreAuthor: Ana Maria Crawford, MD, MSc, FASA ASA Monitor January 2023, Vol. 87, 30. CRITICAL CARE Abstract Millions of people die each year from sepsis and septic shock. Sepsis is defined as life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection (JAMA 2016;315:801-10). The Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) formed in 2002 as a joint […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Connie Chung, MD et al Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Volume 38, No. 2 • June 2023 The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Committee on Practice Parameters (CPP), chaired by Karen Domino, MD, MPH, created a task force to develop guidelines for neuromuscular blockade (NMB) to improve patient safety and satisfaction. The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation […]
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