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Concurrent surgeries in which a surgeon runs two operations at once increase the risk of surgical complications for patients undergoing hip surgery, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Members of the healthcare community have argued over the safety of overlapping surgeries ever since The Boston Globe‘s Spotlight Team issued a controversial report about Boston-based Massachusetts General […]
Read MoreAuthor: Christopher A. Troianos, M.D., FASE ASA Monitor 12 2017, Vol.81, 44-45. Christopher A. Troianos, M.D., FASE, is President, Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, and Professor and Chair of the Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. Adult cardiothoracic anesthesiology (ACTA) is now firmly established as a subspecialty within anesthesiology as it […]
Read MoreAuthors: Dorothea S. Rosenberger, M.D., Ph.D. et al ASA Monitor 12 2017, Vol.81, 38-40. The Brain Trauma Foundation published its updated guidelines for the management of severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) in fall 2016 on its website braintrauma.org, followed by an executive summary published in Neurosurgery in January 2017. The fourth edition of guidelines of sTBI is based on systematic […]
Read MoreASA Monitor 12 2017, Vol.81, 32. According to a recent single-center study reporting on neuraxial anesthesia in parturients with platelet counts less than 100,000/mm3, which of the following is most likely true? (A) Preeclampsia was the most common etiology of a platelet count below 100,000/mm3. (B) Ten percent of parturients had a platelet count below 100,000/mm3. (C) Approximately […]
Read MoreASA Monitor 12 2017, Vol.81, 30-31. Review of unusual patient care experiences is a cornerstone of medical education. Each month, the AQI-AIRS Steering Committee abstracts a patient history submitted to the Anesthesia Incident Reporting System (AIRS) and authors a discussion of the safety and human factors challenges involved. Real-life case histories often include multiple clinical decisions, […]
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