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ASA Monitor January 2023, Vol. 87, 14–15. An 11-year-old patient with complex past medical history, including known difficult vascular access, history of central access complications, and neuromuscular scoliosis, presented for posterior spine fusion. There was difficulty securing peripheral I.V.s, even with ultrasound guidance. A small-gauge I.V. was placed in the left saphenous vein as a backup […]
Read MoreRadius Anesthesia blog Delirium after anesthesia, also known as emergence delirium (ED) is a clinical condition in which patients have alterations to their attention, awareness, and perceptions. In children, this often results in behavioral disturbances such as crying, sobbing, thrashing and disorientation [1]. Emergence delirium can be a difficult diagnosis to make as most children are […]
Read MoreAuthor: Talmage D. Egan, MD, FASA ASA Monitor January 2023, Vol. 87, 1–7. In my role as chair of an anesthesiology department at an academic medical center, every few weeks I have lunch with the medical students rotating on our service. These lunches are in part an effort to recruit our medical school’s best students into […]
Read MoreAuthors: Amrita Roy, M.D. et al Anesthesiology December 2022. To the Editor: The analysis, by Sakaguchi et al., of the role of high-flow nasal oxygen administered postoperatively in those diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in lieu of conventional continuous positive airway pressure therapy is interesting. We would welcome further commentary from the authors on a few […]
Read MoreASA Monitor January 2023, Vol. 87, 23–24. Trends Hair straightening chemicals associated with higher risk of uterine cancer In a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study of over 33,000 women, researchers found that women who used chemical hair straightening products were at higher risk for uterine cancer than women who did not use these products. The […]
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