Authors: Saeedah Asaf, MBBS; M. Saif Siddiqui, MBBS ASA Monitor August 2023, Vol. 87, 22–23. The mobile phone revolution has resulted in more people with access to cell phones than clean water and electricity. Now, 104 per 100 people have access to mobile phones in developing countries (Figure) (asamonitor.pub/462PUVd). In collaboration with tech companies, global health organizations […]
Read MoreAuthors: Morgan D. Stosic, MA et al Anesthesiology August 2023. Background Healthcare trainees frequently report facing comments from their patients pertaining to their age. Exposure to ageist comments from patients may be related to greater stress and/or burnout in residents and may impact the quality of the resident-patient relationship. However, little empirical work has examined […]
Read MoreAuthors: Kevin T Martin, M.D. et al Anesthesiology August 2023. Background Bedside electrical impedance tomography (EIT) could be useful to visualize evolving pulmonary perfusion distributions when acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) worsens or in response to ventilatory and positional therapies. In experimental ARDS, we evaluated the agreement of EIT and dynamic-contrast enhanced computed tomography (CT) […]
Read MoreAuthors: Mike Charlesworth and Andrew Klein #TheAnesthesiaBlog We often hear calls for the use of PROMs and PREMs in research, and a range of studies report their use in the September issue. O’Carroll et al. report the largest multicentre dataset of day 1 and 30 postpartum recovery metrics using PROMs in patients from the UK. They […]
Read MoreAuthor: Madeline Talbot ASA Monitor August 2023, Vol. 87, 37. The University of Toronto’s Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine is enormous. Composed of over 700 faculty members and trainees, the university is part of the Toronto Academic Health Science Network, and the department currently closely partners with six fully affiliated hospitals and 11 community hospitals. […]
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