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Authors: Heather Lander, MD; et al ASA Monitor January 2023, Vol. 87, 20–21. According to a recent World Health Organization (WHO) publication, in 2020 the number of people aged 60 years and older outnumbered children younger than 5 years worldwide (asamonitor.pub/3NC2L83). Simultaneous to the rapidly growing older population, their surgical and perioperative needs are also increasing. […]
Read MoreAuthor: Mariah Taylor Becker’s Hospital Review A recent study found risk-adjusted survival rates for cardiac arrest can vary as much as 71 percent between two randomly chosen hospitals. The study, published Dec. 15 in JACC Cardiovascular Interventions, analyzed 4,787 patients from 231 hospitals. The median survival rate was 36 percent, but the rates varied from 20 percent to […]
Read MoreAuthor: Doheny K. Pract Pain Manag. 2023 January/February;23(1). Migraine affects at least 39 million US adults, according to the Association of Migraine Disorders,¹ causing lost workdays, time away from family, and other quality of life issues. Worldwide, about 10% of people are affected by migraine and women are three times as likely to be affected […]
Read MoreAuthor: Richard Novak, MD The Anesthesia Consultant The Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford has administered Mock Oral Board Exams to its residents twice yearly since the 1980s. The Mock Oral is designed to mimic the conditions of the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) Standardized Oral Exam (SOE), which candidates must pass to become board-certified. The […]
Read MoreNEJM Journal Watch Patricia Kritek, MD, reviewing Bernard SA et al. JAMA 2022 Nov 8 Semler MW et al. N Engl J Med 2022 Nov 10 Two trials showed no benefit to targeted titration of oxygen in the intensive care unit. Assuring adequate oxygen delivery is a central tenet in the intensive care unit (ICU); however, some studies have […]
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