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ASA Monitor November 2023, Vol. 87, 15–17. Case presentation A 63-year-old male, a left-handed woodworking craftsman with diabetes and a BMI of 37, presented for an outpatient surgery arthroscopic repair of a left shoulder labral tear sustained after a fall that did not respond to conservative treatment. The patient and his daughter stated that he was […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Illescas, Alex MPH et al Anesthesia & Analgesia 136(6):p 1182-1188, June 2023. BACKGROUND: Surgical patients with preexisting neurological diseases create greater challenges to perioperative management, and choice of anesthetic is often complicated. We investigated neuraxial anesthesia use in total knee and hip arthroplasty (TKA/THA) recipients with multiple sclerosis or myasthenia gravis compared to the general […]
Read MoreAuthor: Mary Dale Peterson, MD, MSHCA, FACHE, FASA ASA Monitor November 2023, Vol. 87, 32. I know I’m preaching to the choir when I say we all are feeling the effects of workforce challenges. This includes witnessing or even experiencing health care professional burnout, staff shortages, a backlog of elective surgeries and procedures, reduced OR capacity, […]
Read MoreASA Monitor November 2023, Vol. 87, 14. Case presentation: A 10-year-old boy with a complex past medical history notable for neonatal stroke resulting in cortical blindness, tracheoesophageal fistula repaired in infancy, and ASD/VSD repair requiring subsequent pacemaker placement and pacemaker dependence presented for iliac bone graft for correction of an alveolar maxillary cleft defect. During the […]
Read MoreASA Monitor November 2023, Vol. 87, 13. The Labor and Delivery Quality and Safety Committee at your institution has been evaluating strategies to decrease their higher-than-desired rate of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). They have initiated the administration of prophylactic intramuscular (IM) methylergonovine in women undergoing cesarean delivery while in labor, provided they have no contraindication to the […]
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