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Authors: Adjoa Boateng, MD, MPH, Laurel S. Braitman, PhD ASA Monitor March 2023, Vol. 87, 16–17. In the past five years, the landscape of medicine has changed drastically for patients and providers, from the rising use of informatics to the widening gap among the iron triangle of access, quality, and cost of care laid bare by the […]
Read MoreAuthor: Deborah Greif ASA Monitor March 2023, Vol. 87, 31. As an organization dedicated to improving patient care, ASA must collaborate with partners who understand and value the profession. Fortunately, the win-win relationships we develop with Industry Partners like Medtronic are enhanced by the clinicians who work on the other side of the relationship. “As an […]
Read MoreAuthors: Jeanna D. Blitz, MD, FASA et al ASA Monitor March 2023, Vol. 87, 27–28. Brain health is inextricably linked with overall physical health. Evidence for the mind-body connection and the bi-directional relationship between them continues to emerge. The past decade has also seen the emergence of a focus on multifactorial quality and outcomes metrics within […]
Read MoreASA Monitor March 2023, Vol. 87, 11. Your next patient is a 5-year-old boy undergoing tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy. You decide to administer a loading dose of 30 mg/kg of oral acetaminophen. According to a recent trial, which of the following outcomes is MOST likely in this patient compared with a patient who receives a loading dose […]
Read MoreASA Monitor March 2023, Vol. 87, 10. A 35-year-old male presented to the radiology department for placement of a gastric feeding tube, with a request for anesthesia support. The patient had HIV/AIDS and active mpox (formerly “monkeypox”) infection, with multiple ulcerative lesions of the oral mucosa that made it painful to eat and drink. The anesthesia […]
Read MoreAuthors: D. Matthew Sherrer, MD, MBA, FASA, FAACD; et al ASA Monitor March 2023, Vol. 87, 1–8. Don’t harm me. Heal me. Hear me. For decades, health care organizations have held this high-reliability adage as the aspirational ideal for patient expectation. By reaching near Six-Sigma levels of safety, modern anesthesiologists have delivered on the first two […]
Read MoreAuthor: Avery Hurt Practical Pain Management Feb 2023 Vol 23 Issue 1 Chronic pelvic pain can be a challenge to treat for many reasons, not least because it manifests in myriad ways, making it difficult even to nail down a definition of the term. The pathology behind chronic pelvic pain (CPP) is equally complex. Even […]
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