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Uncategorized Published - 20 May, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
Artificial Intelligence in Anesthetic Care

AUTHORS: Estrada Alamo et al  Anesthesia & Analgesia 138(5):p 938-950, May 2024. BACKGROUND: This study explored physician anesthesiologists’ knowledge, exposure, and perceptions of artificial intelligence (AI) and their associations with attitudes and expectations regarding its use in clinical practice. The findings highlight the importance of understanding anesthesiologists’ perspectives for the successful integration of AI into anesthesiology, […]

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Uncategorized Published - 20 May, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
Special Communication: Response to “Ensuring a Reliable Platelet Supply in the United States”

Authors: Burns, Carolyn D. MD et al  Anesthesia & Analgesia 138(5):p 925-927, May 2024 The recent “Perspective” published in the New England Journal of Medicine, on June 1, 2023, by Riley et al1 draws attention to the chronic and unreliable platelet supply and the need to expand technologies to collect and prepare platelet components more efficiently and rapidly. […]

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Uncategorized Published - 20 May, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
Modified Thermodilution for Simultaneous Cardiac Output and Recirculation Assessment in Veno-venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

Authors: David Berger, M.D. et al  Anesthesiology May 2024, Vol. 140, 1002–1015. Background Thermodilution is unreliable in veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO). Systemic oxygenation depends on recirculation fractions and ratios of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) flow to cardiac output. In a prospective in vitro simulation, this study assessed the diagnostic accuracy of a modified thermodilution technique for […]

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Uncategorized Published - 20 May, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
State-related Electroencephalography Microstate Complexity during Propofol- and Esketamine-induced Unconsciousness

Authors: Zhenhu Liang, Ph.D. et al  Anesthesiology May 2024, Vol. 140, 935–949. Background Identifying the state-related “neural correlates of consciousness” for anesthetics-induced unconsciousness is challenging. Spatiotemporal complexity is a promising tool for investigating consciousness. The authors hypothesized that spatiotemporal complexity may serve as a state-related but not drug-related electroencephalography (EEG) indicator during an unconscious state induced […]

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Uncategorized Published - 17 May, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
Anesthesia reimbursements continue to sink

Author: Patsy Newitt Becker’s ASC Review Anesthesia reimbursement declines, along with demographic trends and case volume shifts, have drastically changed the ways that providers approach anesthesia coverage, according to a blog post from Coronis Health. Medicare payments for anesthesia “do not begin to cover the cost of providing care,” according to the post. The average anesthesia […]

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