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ASA Monitor 01 2017, Vol.81, 28-29. 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, […]
Read MoreJason Hansen, M.S., J.D. ASA Monitor 01 2017, Vol.81, 54-55. On October 13, then-ASA President-Elect Jeffrey Plagenhoef, M.D., spoke at the Brookings Institution forum, “Protecting Patients from Surprise Medical Bills.” The think tank briefing was timed with the release of a Brookings policy paper on this topic and featured two panels: stakeholder and policymaker perspectives. During the […]
Read MoreEditor’s Memo December 2016 By Forest Tennant, MD, DrPH Last December, I wrote about 2 scientific clinical advances relevant to pain management: the recognition that circulating catecholamines control descending pain, and centralization of pain and neuroinflammation as the fundamental causes of persistent or intractable pain. This year’s Practical Clinical Advances of 2016 recognition goes to the […]
Read MoreAsk the Expert December 2016 By Kelly Korza and McKenzie C Ferguson, PharmD, BCPS First, we must consider the different neuropathic pain types. Neuropathic pain can be diverse in nature, encompassing a wide range of pain types, including post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN), painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN), and painful cancer-related neuropathies. Gabapentin has been shown to be beneficial in […]
Read MoreBy Karen at A Penned Point Six-year-old Caleb Sears: His death was preventable I’m not a pediatric anesthesiologist. Most of us in anesthesiology – even those who take care of children in the operating room or the ICU every day – probably will never give anesthesia to a child in a dentist’s or oral surgeon’s office. […]
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