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Uncategorized Published - 12 December, 2022    By - Dr Clemens
UC San Diego doctor creates app for fentanyl overdose rescue

Author: Hayley DeSilva Becker’s Behavioral Health University of California San Diego’s Mark Greenberg, MD, has launched a new app to help prevent fentanyl overdoses, FOX affiliate KSWB reported Dec. 5. The Rescue Me CPR! App provides users with videos and instructions on how to revive an individual who has overdosed on fentanyl. UC San Diego researchers are […]

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Uncategorized Published - 12 December, 2022    By - Dr Clemens
As Colleagues Head for the Exit, Remaining Staff Feel the Heat

Authors: Chelsea Altinger Casey, MD; Christopher J. Malgieri, MD ASA Monitor November 2022, Vol. 86, 36. We’ve all heard the parable of the boiling frog. If you put a frog into boiling water, it will jump out. But if you place it in tepid water and slowly raise the temperature, you get a boiled frog. The frog […]

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Uncategorized Published - 12 December, 2022    By - Dr Clemens
Influenza Vaccination in Perioperative Settings: A Teachable Moment

Authors: Suchitra Rao, M.B.B.S., M.S.C.S. et al  Anesthesiology December 2022, Vol. 137, 745–747. To the Editor: Although influenza vaccination is recommended for all children 6 months of age and older, American vaccination rates are well below U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, D.C.) target goals.  To increase vaccination rates, the Centers for Disease Control and […]

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Uncategorized Published - 9 December, 2022    By - Dr Clemens
What an Anesthesiologist Needs to Know About Pacemakers in 2022

Authors: Archit Sharma, MD, MBA, FASE et al  ASA Monitor November 2022, Vol. 86, 31–32. Ever since the first pacemaker was implanted in 1958, the world has witnessed a consistent uptick in cardiac device therapy (Miller’s Anesthesia, 7th edition, 2009). The term cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) refers to any permanently implantable cardiac pacemaker or any artificial implantable […]

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Uncategorized Published - 9 December, 2022    By - Dr Clemens
Beers Criteria Medications: To Give or Not Give

Authors: Michelle L. Humeidan, MD, PhD; Daniel J. Cole, MD, FASA ASA Monitor November 2022, Vol. 86, 1–6. Life is most delightful when it is on the downward slope, but has not yet reached the abrupt decline. – Seneca We have all encountered geriatric patients amid or on the precipice of an “abrupt decline” in health. Our aim […]

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