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Author: Adaora M. Chima, MBBS, MPH IARS Newsletter Issue 4 Healthcare worker shortages are a growing problem on a global scale. Anesthesia care delivery has not escaped this phenomenon, a dilemma that was the focus of a panel session, “The Anesthesia Workforce: Who’s Doing the Work?” that closed out the IARS 2023 Annual Meeting on […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Levy, Dominique T. BS et al Anesthesia & Analgesia 136(5):p 905-912, May 2023. BACKGROUND: There is a lack of reported clinical outcomes after opioid use in acute trauma patients undergoing anesthesia. Data from the Pragmatic, Randomized, Optimal Platelet and Plasma Ratios (PROPPR) study were analyzed to examine opioid dose and mortality. We hypothesized that higher […]
Read MoreAuthor: Christian S. Guay, MD IARS Newletter Issue 4 With the growth of perioperative medicine, anesthesiologists are increasingly turning to the preoperative period to identify modifiable risk factors that can be intervened upon to prevent postoperative complications and improve long-term outcomes. In a session, cosponsored by Early-Stage Anesthesiology Scholars (eSAS), “Improving Patient Outcomes through Prehabilitation: […]
Read MoreAuthor: Richard Cahill, JD, Vice President and Associate General Counsel, The Doctors Company Consider the following scenario: A successful and highly respected pediatrician with an unblemished record over decades of practice learns of a HIPAA breach by a member of his administrative staff. The employee is terminated after an investigation reveals that the employee had […]
Read MoreAuthors: Evan D. Kharasch, M.D., Ph.D. et al Anesthesiology October 2023, Vol. 139, 405–419. Background Contemporary perioperative practice seeks to use less intraoperative opioid, diminish postoperative pain and opioid use, and enable less postdischarge opioid prescribing. For inpatient surgery, anesthesia with intraoperative methadone, compared with short-duration opioids, results in less pain, less postoperative opioid use, and […]
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