Author: Francesca Mathewes Becker’s ASC Review The anesthesia staffing crisis in the U.S. is generally understood to be caused by several factors that can be boiled down to a supply-and-demand issue. Nearly 30% of anesthesiologists are projected to leave the practice by 2033, according to a 2023 white paper from Medicus Healthcare Solutions. Currently, the U.S. has a […]
Read MoreAuthors: Young DJ et al. Canadian Journal of Anesthesia 72:1558–1583, 2025. Updated version. SummaryThis Continuing Professional Development module provides a practical framework for evaluating and managing adult patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) undergoing ambulatory anesthesia. As outpatient surgery becomes increasingly common, the decision to discharge an OSA patient home the same day requires thoughtful […]
Read MoreAuthors: 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 […]
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