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Uncategorized Published - 13 February, 2023    By - Dr Clemens
Reducing Volatile Anesthetic Waste Using a Commercial Electronic Health Record Clinical Decision Support Tool to Lower Fresh Gas Flows

AUTHORS: Olmos, Andrea V. MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia 136(2):p 327-337, February 2023. BACKGROUND: Volatile anesthetic consumption can be reduced by minimizing excessive fresh gas flows (FGFs). Currently, it is unknown whether decision support tools embedded within commercial electronic health record systems can be successfully adopted to achieve long-term reductions in FGF rates. The authors […]

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Uncategorized Published - 13 February, 2023    By - Dr Clemens
Health Care Burden Associated With Adolescent Prolonged Opioid Use After Surgery

AUTHORS: Cummings Joyner, Alice Kate MS*; King, Michael R. MD†; Safranek, Conrad BS‡; Parvathinathan, Gomathy MS§; De Souza, Elizabeth PhD§; Anderson, T. Anthony PhD, MD§ Anesthesia & Analgesia 136(2):p 317-326, February 2023. BACKGROUND: Prolonged opioid use after surgery (POUS), defined as the filling of at least 1 opioid prescription filled between 90 and 180 days […]

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Uncategorized Published - 13 February, 2023    By - Dr Clemens
Using Data for Safety and Quality Improvement

Authors: Holly B. Ende, MD; Jonathan P. Wanderer, MD, MPhil Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundations  Volume 38, No. 1 • February 2023  The delivery of safe and effective anesthesia care is grounded in the science of quality improvement, which relies on accurate and timely reporting of patient outcomes. In the era of the electronic health record (EHR) […]

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Uncategorized Published - 13 February, 2023    By - Dr Clemens
Artificial Intelligence, Patient Safety, and Achieving the Quintuple Aim in Anesthesiology

Authors: Jonathan M. Tan, MD, MPH, MBI, FASA; Maxime P. Cannesson, MD, PhD Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Volume 38, No. 1 • February 2023  INTRODUCTION Anesthesiology as a specialty has a long history of innovation in technology development linked to improvements in patient safety. However, the speed of technological development in the past 20 years has […]

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Uncategorized Published - 10 February, 2023    By - Dr Clemens
Prevalence and Outcomes of Opioid Use Disorder in Pediatric Surgical Patients

AUTHORS: Alalade, Emmanuel MD et al  Anesthesia & Analgesia 136(2):p 308-316, February 2023. BACKGROUND: Chronic opioid use among adolescents is a leading preventable public health problem in the United States. Consequently, a sizable proportion of surgical patients in this age group may have a comorbid opioid use disorder (OUD). No previously published study has examined the […]

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