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ASA Monitor August 2022, Vol. 86, 27–28. Media coverage of ASA’s fight against 0% increase in Medicare payment continues In March, Becker’s ASC Review covered ASA’s urging Congress not to accept the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission Recommendation of no (0%) annual payment update for physician payments in 2023 and quoted ASA President Randall M. Clark, MD, […]
Read MoreAuthor: Gordon Glantz ASA Monitor August 2022, Vol. 86, 17. Joseph Szokol, MD, ASA’s Chief Health Policy Officer, would love nothing more than to say that he has not been directly affected by substance use disorders (SUDs), but that is sadly not the case. “Unfortunately, I have had to do interventions on several residents and […]
Read MoreASA Monitor August 2022, Vol. 86, 12. Your next patient is a 75-year-old woman who fell while walking across her living room and sustained a right hip fracture. You plan to place a spinal anesthetic for the hip fracture repair surgery. According to a recent study, which of the following outcomes is MOST likely improved 60 […]
Read MoreASA Monitor August 2022, Vol. 86, 10–11. This month’s AIRS case reports are presented in a format that we have borrowed from NASA’s CALLBACK, which discusses events that have been entered into the Aviation Safety Reporting System. We will let you “interact” with the information given in two events that have been reported to AIRS. In […]
Read MoreAuthors: Uday Jain, BSEE, MD, PhD, FASA; Lalitha Sundararaman, MBBS, MD ASA Monitor August 2022, Vol. 86, 25. The current Omicron BA.2 surge has increased the likelihood that infected patients will undergo surgery. A study from March through August 2020 found that the 30-day risk of pulmonary complications, sepsis, and ischemic stroke was increased among patients positive […]
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