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AUTHORS: Xu, Cheng MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia 138(2):p 483-484, February 2024. Interscalene brachial plexus block is known for providing superior analgesia for shoulder procedures; however, there is a risk of hemi-diaphragmatic paralysis due to phrenic nerve palsy, which may restrict its use in certain populations.1 The suprascapular, axillary, and subscapular nerves innervate the shoulder joint.2,3 Recent […]
Read MoreAuthors: David Berger, MD et al Anesthesiology January 2024. Background Thermodilution is unreliable in veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO). Systemic oxygenation depends on recirculation fractions and ratios of ECMO flow to cardiac output. In a prospective in vitro simulation, we assessed the diagnostic accuracy of a modified thermodilution technique for recirculation and cardiac output. We […]
Read MoreAuthor: Victoria Bailey TechTarget As staffing shortages and financial challenges persist, healthcare providers are increasingly considering outsourcing revenue cycle management processes, according to a study from CWH Advisors and sponsored by Synchrony. The 2022 PatientPay study was conducted in November and December 2022 and reflects responses from 38 executives at health systems, hospitals, and large single […]
Read MoreAuthors: Mudumbai, Seshadri C. MD, MS et al Anesthesia & Analgesia 138(2):p 253-272, February 2024. Abstract The role of informatics in public health has increased over the past few decades, and the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has underscored the critical importance of aggregated, multicenter, high-quality, near-real-time data to inform decision-making by physicians, hospital systems, and […]
Read MoreAuthor: Madeline Ashley Becker’s Hospital’s CFO Report While 73% of nonprofit hospitals and health systems saw “strong” levels of cash on hand in 2022, 18% saw “adequate” levels, with 9% coming in at “vulnerable” or “highly vulnerable” with available cash on hand, according to a Jan. 9 KFF report. The analysis looked at “days cash on hand” […]
Read MoreThis article doesn’t involve anesthesia directly but I wanted to share with our readers because so many of our patients are taking them. This is a bonus blog you still get your five concerning anesthesia. Author: Michael Walter Cardiovascular Business The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found no evidence that the use of GLP-1 receptor […]
Read MoreAuthors: Hemmerling, Thomas M. MD, MSc, DEAA; Jeffries, Sean D. MSc Anesthesia & Analgesia 138(2):p 239-251, February 2024. Abstract The last 2 decades have brought important developments in anesthetic technology, including robotic anesthesia. Anesthesiologists titrate the administration of pharmacological agents to the patients’ physiology and the needs of surgery, using a variety of sophisticated equipment […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Wei, Juan MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia 138(2):p 456-464, February 2024. BACKGROUND: Hypoxia often occurs due to shared airway and anesthetic sedation-induced hypoventilation in patients receiving flexible bronchoscopy (FB) under deep sedation. Previous evidence has shown that supraglottic jet oxygenation and ventilation (SJOV) via Wei nasal jet tube (WNJ) reduces the incidence of hypoxia […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Rzasa Lynn, Rachael S. MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia 138(2):p 447-455, February 2024. | BACKGROUND: Fentanyl is widely used for analgesia and sedation in neonates, but pharmacokinetic (PK) analysis in this population has been limited by the relatively large sample volumes required for plasma-based assays. METHODS: In this multicenter observational study of fentanyl kinetics in […]
Read MoreAUTHOR: Sessler, Daniel I. MD Anesthesia & Analgesia 138(2):p 485, February 2024. When I walk into an empty operating room, I can hardly force my way through the crowd that isn’t there. Anesthesia is remarkably safe, with preventable intraoperative mortality now being so low that it is hard to quantify. But it was not always […]
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