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 […]
Read MoreASA 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 […]
Read MoreAuthors: 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 […]
Read MoreAuthor: 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 […]
Read MoreAuthors: 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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