Authors: Ahmad R G et al. Cureus 17(11): e97818 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.97818 Summary:This case report describes the anesthesia management of a rare advanced abdominal pregnancy discovered only after beginning an emergency cesarean section. A 30-year-old primigravida arrived with abdominal pain, fever, anemia, and fetal distress. Spinal anesthesia was initiated per protocol. Once the abdomen was opened, […]
Read MoreAuthors: Chen P-F et al. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, 2025. DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2025.112083 SummaryMany anesthesiology performance metrics—such as anesthesia time, surgical time, epidural placement time, extubation time, and PACU time—follow log-normal distributions. This study evaluated how different statistical approaches perform when comparing each individual anesthesiologist or surgeon (“person”) with the overall grand mean to identify outliers. […]
Read MoreAuthors: Morita T et al. European Journal of Anaesthesiology 42(12):1094–1101, December 2025. DOI: 10.1097/EJA.0000000000002286 SummaryThis single-centre observational study from Osaka University Hospital evaluated whether sugammadex dosing could be optimized by calculating the residual amount of rocuronium in each patient using pharmacokinetic simulation. Patients without cardiac, hepatic, renal, or neuromuscular disease underwent elective surgery and received […]
Read MoreHardin Medical Center (122 beds) is offering a rare CRNA-only practice where you can enjoy full autonomy and an exceptional lifestyle. • Schedule: 2 weeks on / 1 week off (17 weeks off each year)• Model: Independent CRNA practice – no anesthesiologist supervision• Case Mix: General surgery, orthopedics, endoscopy, OB/GYN (including epidurals & C-sections)• No […]
Read MoreAuthors: Stannard B et al. Anesthesia & Analgesia 141(6):1203–1210, December 2025. SummaryThis single-center retrospective cohort study evaluated 25,234 adult surgical patients with at least one intraoperative arterial blood gas obtained between 2008 and 2019. The investigators examined whether intraoperative occult hypoxemia—defined as SaO2 <88% despite SpO2 >92%—was associated with postoperative mortality. Among more than 62,000 […]
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