Anesthesiology News Sonia Vaida, MD Professor of Anesthesiology, Obstetrics, and Gynecology Vice Chair, Research Director, Obstetric Anesthesia Department of Anesthesiology Penn State College of Medicine Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Hershey, Pennsylvania Difficult and failed tracheal intubation in obstetric patients is a well-known problem with potentially devastating consequences. Fortunately, the recently reported […]
Read MoreAuthor: Thomas Rosenthal Anesthesiology News Placement of an airway exchange catheter (AEC) in ICU patients at high risk for extubation failure facilitates safe and rapid replacement of an endotracheal tube, research concluded. From a small series of medical ICU patients, researchers found that “placement of an airway exchange catheter in patients at high risk of […]
Read MorePeter Ubel Contributor Forbes Healthcare reimbursement in the U.S. is frighteningly complex. We have federal payers, like Medicare; state/federal payers, like Medicaid; private, for-profit insurance companies, like Aetna; private, not for profit insurers, like many local Blue Cross Blue Shield networks. Oh yes, and we have private insurance companies managing reimbursement for many Medicare and Medicaid […]
Read MoreAuthor: Deborah Grayson Riegel Harvard Business Review OCTOBER 12, 2018 In my coaching work with leaders and teams, I often ask my clients whether they engage in workplace gossip. More often than not, they respond, “of course not!” with a look on their faces that indicates that they are insulted to have been asked such […]
Read MoreAnesthesiology News Elizabeth A.M. Frost, MD Professor of Anesthesiology Mount Sinai Medical Center New York, New York Wegener’s Granulomatosis What Is It? Wegener’s granulomatosis, first described by Peter McBride in 1897 and later by Friedrich Wegener (1936 and 1939), is a chronic, immunologic, systemic disorder characterized mainly by necrotizing granulomatosis and polyangiitis throughout the respiratory […]
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