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ASA Monitor May 2024, Vol. 88, e4. We read with interest your recent article (‘Heads Up’ on Advances in CPR, February 2024) on the importance of “head-up” CPR in combination with active compression-decompression and an impedance threshold device in improving out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) outcomes (ASA Monitor 2024;88:1-4). As you point out, this change in patient […]
Read MoreAuthor: Matthew Goldan ASA Monitor May 2024, Vol. 88, 13. For decades, anesthesiologists have relied on pulse oximeters as an essential tool in monitoring patients’ blood oxygen saturation levels. In the years after ASA published its Standards for Basic Anesthetic Monitoring in 1986 and helped establish pulse oximeters as a prevalent requirement for anesthesia care, the […]
Read MoreASA Monitor May 2024, Vol. 88, 27. A study conducted by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has found that women receiving mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters during pregnancy provide their infants with robust protection against symptomatic COVID-19 for at least six months after birth. The study underscores the importance of pregnant individuals […]
Read MoreAuthors: Vilma Joseph, MD, MPH, FASA et al ASA Monitor May 2024, Vol. 88, 33–35. In 2009, the ASA Committee on Professional Diversity (CPD) created the ASA Mentoring Grant. The CPD was chaired by Gregory Kerr, MD, MBA, and the inaugural director of the grant program was Karen Williams, MD. This grant was intended to foster […]
Read MoreASA Monitor May 2024, Vol. 88, 25. For which of the following local anesthetics is the duration of action MOST prolonged by the addition of epinephrine? (A) Bupivacaine (B) Lidocaine (C) Etidocaine Vasoconstrictors are added to local anesthetic solutions to decrease the rate of vascular absorption of local anesthetic deposited near the nerve. The added vasoconstrictor […]
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