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Uncategorized Published - 2 March, 2023    By - Dr Clemens
Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Immunity Debt 2023

Authors: Richard Simoneaux; Steven L. Shafer, MD, FASA, Editor-in-Chief ASA Monitor March 2023, Vol. 87, 1–6. We can’t get a break! Having battled SARS-CoV-2 for the past two years, the past few months have seen health care systems facing a “tridemic” comprising COVID, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and influenza. The national surge in RSV has been widely […]

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Uncategorized Published - 2 March, 2023    By - Dr Clemens
ACE Question March 2023

ASA Monitor March 2023, Vol. 87, 12. During emergence from a knee arthroscopy procedure using general anesthesia with a laryngeal mask airway, a 25-year-old, otherwise healthy woman develops laryngospasm requiring the administration of succinylcholine. An hour after the end of the case, she is in the recovery area, awake and alert, but requiring nasal cannula oxygen […]

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Uncategorized Published - 2 March, 2023    By - Dr Clemens
DEI and the Medical Humanities: Necessary Medicine for Health Care’s Challenges 2023

Authors: Adjoa Boateng, MD, MPH, Laurel S. Braitman, PhD ASA Monitor March 2023, Vol. 87, 16–17. In the past five years, the landscape of medicine has changed drastically for patients and providers, from the rising use of informatics to the widening gap among the iron triangle of access, quality, and cost of care laid bare by the […]

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Uncategorized Published - 2 March, 2023    By - Dr Clemens
Advancing Patient Care from Inside Corporate Partner Organizations 2023

Author: Deborah Greif ASA Monitor March 2023, Vol. 87, 31. As an organization dedicated to improving patient care, ASA must collaborate with partners who understand and value the profession. Fortunately, the win-win relationships we develop with Industry Partners like Medtronic are enhanced by the clinicians who work on the other side of the relationship. “As an […]

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Uncategorized Published - 1 March, 2023    By - Dr Clemens
Assessing Potentially Modifiable Factors Associated with the Development of Postoperative Delirium 2023

Authors: Jeanna D. Blitz, MD, FASA et al  ASA Monitor March 2023, Vol. 87, 27–28. Brain health is inextricably linked with overall physical health. Evidence for the mind-body connection and the bi-directional relationship between them continues to emerge. The past decade has also seen the emergence of a focus on multifactorial quality and outcomes metrics within […]

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