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Authors: Cathlin Bowman-Young, MBA; Matthew T. Popovich, PhD ASA Monitor March 2024, Vol. 88, 24–25. As anesthesiologists and their groups are wrapping up the 2023 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) reporting year, we realize that those same groups are determining their MIPS 2024 quality measures and improvement activities to report. We take a moment to share with […]
Read MoreASA Monitor March 2024, Vol. 88, 14. CD8+ T cell activity could improve effectiveness of HIV vaccine A study funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases suggests that an effective HIV vaccine might need to stimulate robust responses from CD8+ T cells to protect against HIV acquisition. In HIV infection, the virus damages […]
Read MoreAuthors: Alhassan Datti Mohammed, BM, BCh, DA (Ibadan), FWACS et al ASA Monitor March 2024, Vol. 88, 17–19. Critical care is time-critical care provided anywhere a critically ill patient needs it. Not exclusive to the intensive care unit, critically ill patients are pediatric, elderly, parturient, and adults. At the 2023 World Health Assembly, the “ECO” resolution […]
Read MoreAuthor: Robin Hocevar ASA Monitor March 2024, Vol. 88, 34. It’s every anesthesiologist’s worst nightmare. On a Friday afternoon, a teenage boy presents to the OR for a routine ACL surgery. The surgical team worked while listening to music and chatting about weekend plans. Nobody on the team could hear the descending pitch of the pulse […]
Read MoreAuthor: Kim Sumrak ASA Monitor March 2024, Vol. 88, 30–33. Figure: ASRA Pain Medicine consensus guidelines on the management of the perioperative patient on cannabis and cannabinoids: an infographic. (Reg Anesth Pain Med 2023;48:119). Whether due to legalization, culture change, or other reasons, Americans have been using more cannabis over the past 20 years. According to the […]
Read MoreAuthor: Jodi D. Sherman, MD ASA Monitor March 2024, Vol. 88, 9–10. The ASA Committee on Environmental Health is pleased to announce the release of the third edition of Greening the Operating Room and Perioperative Arena: Environmental Sustainability in Anesthesia Practice (asamonitor.pub/GORPA). This resource document is widely read and referenced by clinicians, administrators, and policymakers across […]
Read MoreAuthors: Raquel Pereira-Silva, PhD et al Anesthesiology February 2024. Background The dorsal reticular nucleus is a pain facilitatory area involved in the diffuse noxious inhibitory controls (DNIC), through opioidergic mechanisms that are poorly understood. We hypothesized that signaling of µ-opioid receptors is altered in this area at prolonged chronic inflammatory pain and that this accounts […]
Read MoreASA Monitor March 2024, Vol. 88, 14. Heart-valve infection death rate increases Recent analysis of research based on death certificate data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicated an overall decline in infective endocarditis death rates in the U.S. from 1999 to 2020. Death rates increased significantly, however, for young adults at an […]
Read MoreBy Dave Muoio Fierce Health Almost 60% of surveyed hospitals reported at least $1 million of impacted revenues per day, and 74% said that the Change Healthcare incident has had “direct patient care impact” within their facilities. The breadth and scale of the interruption ends the debate over whether hospitals need more relief from payers and […]
Read MoreAuthors: Corinna J. Yu, MD, MBA, FASA et al ASA Monitor March 2024, Vol. 88, 28. Emergency medicine (EM) has plummeted in popularity, with the highest unfilled position rate (18.3%) of any specialty in the 2023 Match (asamonitor.pub/3X3WYwS). This occurred while simultaneously facing a 10% decrease in applicants compared to the year prior. Anesthesiology applicants, on […]
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