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Uncategorized Published - 20 September, 2022    By - Dr Clemens
Reaching the Next Generation in Our Communities

Author: Karen S. Sibert, MD, FASA ASA Monitor September 2022, Vol. 86, 1–5. Community service isn’t an easy or obvious fit for anesthesiologists. Our natural habitat is the OR or ICU. But many of us do feel a need to give something back to our communities. The question is, how to do it? Back in 2016, the California […]

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Uncategorized Published - 19 September, 2022    By - Dr Clemens
Improving Care and Outcomes for the Older Adult: A Holistic Model

Authors: Mrugesh Thakkar, MD et al  ASA Monitor September 2022, Vol. 86, 17–18. Holistic model for care of the older adult. Older adults represent a growing patient population with unique care needs. As perioperative physicians, our goal is to optimize our patients’ physical, psychological, social, and cognitive health. In a holistic model of care, all the […]

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Uncategorized Published - 19 September, 2022    By - Dr Clemens
Straying From the Beaten Path: Rural Anesthesia and Perioperative Care

Authors: Zachary Deutch, MD, FASA; Shaan Alli, MD ASA Monitor September 2022, Vol. 86, 14–15. Hello readers, I hope everyone had an enjoyable summer and is off to a smooth start of the academic/fiscal (depending on your practice setting) year. This month, we welcome an ASA member from New England and an expert on rural medicine, Dr. […]

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Uncategorized Published - 19 September, 2022    By - Dr Clemens
Redesigned Incident Reporting Systems for Patient Safety

Author: Emily Methangkool, MD, MPH ASA Monitor September 2022, Vol. 86, 28. Ever since To Err is Human advocated for reporting critical incidents to improve patient safety, incident reporting systems have proliferated across health care organizations (To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System. 2000). Over the past two decades, critical incident reporting systems have become […]

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Uncategorized Published - 19 September, 2022    By - Dr Clemens
Trends & Technology

ASA Monitor September 2022, Vol. 86, 12. Trends Treating precancerous anal lesions reduces risk of cancer in people with HIV A National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study found that the treatment of anal pre-cancerous growths, known as high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSILs), reduces the risk of developing anal cancer in people with HIV by more than […]

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