AUTHORS: Sadjadi, Mahan MD et a Anesthesia & Analgesia May 09, 2023. BACKGROUND: Sepsis remains the leading cause of mortality in critically ill patients, and mortality is increased when acute kidney injury (AKI) occurs. The Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) guideline recommends the implementation of supportive measures in patients at high risk for AKI. […]
Read MoreAuthors: S. Mark Poler, MD, FASA, DABA, DABPM(CI) et al ASA Monitor September 2023, Vol. 87, 19–20. How can large health systems support dispersed and underserved populations in remote, underfunded, and often understaffed rural facilities with obstetric and surgical needs? Rochester, New York, Danville, Pennsylvania, and Marshfield, Wisconsin, are not similar, but the populations supported by […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Rayaz, Hassan MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia April 28, 2023. | BACKGROUND: Increasing clinical demands can adversely impact academic advancement, including the ability to deliver lectures and disseminate scholarly work. The virtual lecture platform became mainstream during the height of the coronavirus-19 pandemic. Lessons learned from this period may offer insight into supporting academic […]
Read MoreASA Monitor November 2023, Vol. 87, 36. Bloomberg Law features ASA support of Texas federal court surprise billing ruling In August, Bloomberg Law wrote about a statement from ASA, the American College of Radiology, and the American College of Emergency Physicians commending the Texas federal court ruling that the government’s 600% fee increase to access the […]
Read MoreBy J. C. Hallman New York, Henry Holt and Company, 2023. Pages: 417. ISBN-13: 978-1-250-86846-6. Price: $29.99 (Hardcover). Kathryn Elizabeth McGoldrick, M.D., F.C.A.I. (Hon.). Anesthesiology November 2023. Students of anesthesia history are hauntingly familiar with the bone-chilling chronicle of Fanny Burney (1752 to 1840) who endured a mastectomy without anesthesia in 1811, 35 yr before […]
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