Authors: Crystal C. Wright, MD, FASA et al ASA Monitor November 2022, Vol. 86, 23–24. Anesthesia professionals are currently experiencing workforce shortages, which are projected to only worsen across the United States. Many of us experience this reality daily in our private and academic practices, with shortages resulting in anesthesiologists experiencing longer work hours, more calls, […]
Read MoreRadius Anesthesia blog October 17, 2022 Current CDC guidelines continue to advise persons who test positive for COVID-19 to isolate for a minimum of five days (4). While the CDC defines the start of isolation as the date of symptom onset, organizations such as schools and businesses may begin the isolation period on the day of […]
Read MoreAuthor: Ethan Baron The Mercury News Savannah Thompson walked into the emergency department at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, California, just after midnight June 14, fearing she had ingested fentanyl — a synthetic opiate responsible for a North America-wide epidemic of fatal overdoses — in what she had been told was cocaine, according […]
Read MoreAuthor: Amy Gallagher ASA Monitor November 2022, Vol. 86, 16. Accepting and adapting to change is a function of growth and development, which is a critical factor in the complex and fast-growing pursuit of personalized medicine. As a clinical pharmacologist, Robert L. Barkin, MBA, PharmD, FCP, OFRSM, has been involved in pain management for decades. Barkin […]
Read MoreAuthors: Basem B. Abdelmalak, MD, FASA, SAMBA-F et al ASA Monitor November 2022, Vol. 86, 26–27. Driven by advances in minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, the demand for anesthesia and procedural sedation outside the OR has expanded more rapidly than ever. This has placed tremendous strain on anesthesiology departments, both to fulfill anesthesia service needs […]
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