Month: May 2024

Uncategorized Published - 1 May, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
The Evolving Importance of Cardiovascular Anesthesia

Author: Rita Astani, Coronis Anesthesia Summary Heart cases involve lots of base units and lots of time units, but how much value do they really bring to an anesthesia practice?  Today’s article examines the current volume and relative value of cardiac anesthesia cases. There was a time, not too long ago, when cardiovascular anesthesiologists were […]

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Uncategorized Published - 1 May, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
Nationwide Clinical Practice Patterns of Anesthesiology Critical Care Physicians

AUTHORS: Shaefi, Shahzad MD, MPH et al  Anesthesia & Analgesia 136(2):p 295-307, February 2023. BACKGROUND: Despite the growing contributions of critical care anesthesiologists to clinical practice, research, and administrative leadership of intensive care units (ICUs), relatively little is known about the subspecialty-specific clinical practice environment. An understanding of contemporary clinical practice is essential to recognize the […]

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Uncategorized Published - 1 May, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
Association of Mechanical Energy and Power with Postoperative Pulmonary Complications in Lung Resection Surgery

Authors: Susie Yoon, M.D., Ph.D et al  Anesthesiology May 2024, Vol. 140, 920–934. Background Mechanical power (MP), the rate of mechanical energy (ME) delivery, is a recently introduced unifying ventilator parameter consisting of tidal volume, airway pressures, and respiratory rates, which predicts pulmonary complications in several clinical contexts. However, ME has not been previously studied in […]

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Uncategorized Published - 1 May, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
Regional anaesthesia practices: insights from a European survey

AUTHORS: Konijn, Arjan et al  European Journal of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care 2(4):p e0026, August 2023. BACKGROUND The use of regional anaesthesia has increased and evolved over the past two decades but to what extent is unclear. Moreover, there is no clear standardisation of best practice in the current European landscape, which could result in inconsistencies […]

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Uncategorized Published - 1 May, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
Randomized controlled trial assessing intubation time with and without an aerosol biocontainment device

Authors: Kohanski, Michael A. MD, PhD et al Journal of Head & Neck Anesthesia 7(1):p e43, June 2023. Introduction: The emergence of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic renewed interest in infectious aerosols and methods to reduce risk of airborne respiratory pathogen transmission. This has led to the development of novel aerosol protective devices for which […]

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