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ASA Monitor December 2021, Vol. 85, 15. You are caring for a parturient at 38 weeks gestation who is undergoing an urgent cesarean delivery with spinal anesthesia due to labor with a breech presentation and fetal macrosomia. Her medical history includes pulmonary hypertension, for which she is currently taking sildenafil three times daily. The obstetricians […]
Read MoreAuthors: Natalya S. Hasan-Hill, MD; Jody Cimbalo Leng, MD, MS; Anita Honkanen, MD, MS, FAAP ASA Monitor December 2021, Vol. 85, 29–30. Copyright © 2016 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed significant challenges to the professional lives and working environments of health care providers. Even if the […]
Read MoreAuthors: Christopher A. Troianos, MD, FASE, FASA and Andrew D. Shaw, MB, FRCA, FRCPC, FFICM ASA Monitor December 2021, Vol. 85, 39. The Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA) was established in 1978 to provide education and to support research and mentorship to anesthesiologists caring for patients with cardiac disease undergoing cardiac and non-cardiac surgery. The Accreditation Council […]
Read MoreASA Monitor December 2021, Vol. 85, 10. Case 2021-12: Avoiding the Blame Game This event occurred in an outpatient setting. The muscular, red-headed patient reported high anesthetic requirements and that he had woken up during every procedure he had. I told my resident to have extra propofol ready for LMA insertion. Resident pushed 200 of […]
Read MoreAuthors: Amy E. Vinson, MD, FAAP and Jina L. Sinskey, MD, FASA ASA Monitor December 2021, Vol. 85, 28–29. Recently, ASA approved a formal standing Committee on Physician Well-Being (COPWB) to address the growing needs of the membership and, ultimately, the patients we serve. For years there existed within ASA a community of anesthesiologists committed to […]
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