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Author: Leah C. Acker, Ph.D., M.D. et al Anesthesiology February 2019. In emergency and critical care medicine, focused cardiac ultrasound is well-established to rapidly narrow the differential diagnosis of hemodynamic instability.1 Although anesthesiologists have traditionally relied upon transesophageal echocardiography for this indication, perioperative providers are recognizing the advantages of focused cardiac ultrasound for crisis management. […]
Read MoreASA Monitor 2 2019, Vol.83, 56-57. You are working in the ambulatory center and learn that your next patient, scheduled for inguinal hernia repair, was chewing gum while entering the building. The admitting nurse asks whether you will delay or cancel the surgery. According to a recent randomized crossover trial of healthy adult volunteers, what effect […]
Read MoreBy Sandra Gordon for ASA “Delirium shouldn’t be the norm.” Making Delirium Prevention the Standard of Care at VUMC Christopher Hughes, M.D., medical director of the Neuro Intensive Care Unit and program director of the Anesthesia Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), discusses the pioneering efforts his intensive care unit (ICU) […]
Read MoreAuthor: Ayla Ellison Becker’s Hospital Review A former patient filed a proposed class-action lawsuit April 17 against San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare and one of its hospitals after motion-activated cameras placed in operating rooms filmed more than 1,800 patients during surgeries without their consent. Sharp HealthCare officials said the cameras were installed on anesthesia carts used […]
Read MoreAuthor: VICTOR TANGERMANN FUTURISM In what the Israeli media is calling a “world’s first,” scientists at Tel Aviv University have 3D printed a small heart using human tissue that includes vessels, collagen, and biological molecules – a breakthrough, according to Haaretz, that they hope could one day render organ donation obsolete. The technology is still many years […]
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