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Uncategorized Published - 5 February, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
Ultrasound-Guided Pediatric Regional Anesthesia for Orthopedic Surgery

Author: Asha Clarke, MD ASA Monitor February 2024, Vol. 88, 1–7. Ultrasound image showing the placement of a lumbar plexus nerve catheter. Photo courtesy of Asha Clarke, MD. Gaston Labat stated in the forward to his seminal “Regional Anesthesia” textbook, “I do not look forward to the day when regional anesthesia will wholly displace general anesthesia; […]

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Uncategorized Published - 5 February, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
Promoting Safety in Less Familiar Situations:

ASA Monitor February 2024, Vol. 88, 26–27. Anesthesiologists may be asked to work in atypical situations in which features of the environment or procedure require additional resources or increased cognitive load that threaten patient or staff safety. Nonoperating room anesthesia Nonoperating room anesthesia (NORA) is a rapidly growing anesthesia service that includes the MRI environment. […]

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Uncategorized Published - 5 February, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
It’s Time Hospitals Abandon Nitrous Oxide Pipes

Author: Jodi D. Sherman, MD ASA Monitor February 2024, Vol. 88, 33. Recently, hospitals on three separate continents independently discovered that most of their nitrous oxide (between 75% and 95%) leaks out through central piping manifolds prior to use, wasting money and polluting the atmosphere (Anaesthesia 2022;77:1023-9). This led to the creation of the Nitrous Oxide […]

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Uncategorized Published - 5 February, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
Practice Patterns of Anesthesiologist-Intensivists in the US

Authors: Nicholas L. Pesa, MD et al  ASA Monitor February 2024, Vol. 88, 29–30. Critical care medicine as an anesthesiology board subspecialty was established in 1986. Interestingly, in the early 1980s, other specialties, including internal medicine and surgery, attempted to create a unified Board of Critical Care Medicine (Anesthesiology 2001;95:781-8). This was ultimately unsuccessful due to disagreements […]

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Uncategorized Published - 5 February, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
Most rural hospitals aren’t offering labor and delivery services, forcing mothers to travel

Author: Dave Muoio J Fierce Healthcare Over half of the country’s rural hospitals aren’t offering labor and delivery services, and many of those that are could soon be forced to end maternity care due to financial losses, according to the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform (CHQPR). The center wrote in a new report that over […]

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