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Author: Michael W. Champeau, MD, FASA ASA Monitor January 2023, Vol. 87, 9. We need to band together – and stay together. We cannot let our differences drive us apart. Those words were a portion of my closing comments to the House of Delegates at its meeting in New Orleans in October. They also echo the […]
Read MoreAuthor: Catlin Nalley ASA Monitor January 2023, Vol. 87, 22. After a major surgery, there is an approximately 30% risk for serious adverse events during the first 30 postoperative days, and postoperative complications are ranked as the third most likely cause of death worldwide. “We wanted to develop a system that offered the anesthesiologist’s level of […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Baskozos, Georgios et al PAIN Reports 8(2):p e1066, March 2023. Introduction: Previous epidemiological studies of neuropathic pain have reported a range of prevalences and factors associated with the disorder. Objectives: This study aimed to verify these characteristics in a large UK cohort. Methods: A cross-sectional analysis was conducted of 148,828 UK Biobank participants who completed […]
Read MoreAuthor: Amr E. Abouleish, MD, MBA, FASA ASA Monitor January 2023, Vol. 87, 28. PRACTICE MANAGEMENT Abstract In the wake of news coverage and studies examining surgeons with overlapping surgical procedures and patient outcomes, Burns et al. examined anesthesiologists covering overlapping anesthesia cases and the staffing ratio impact on patient outcomes in this retrospective, matched cohort […]
Read MoreAuthor: Ana Maria Crawford, MD, MSc, FASA ASA Monitor January 2023, Vol. 87, 30. CRITICAL CARE Abstract Millions of people die each year from sepsis and septic shock. Sepsis is defined as life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection (JAMA 2016;315:801-10). The Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) formed in 2002 as a joint […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Connie Chung, MD et al Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Volume 38, No. 2 • June 2023 The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Committee on Practice Parameters (CPP), chaired by Karen Domino, MD, MPH, created a task force to develop guidelines for neuromuscular blockade (NMB) to improve patient safety and satisfaction. The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation […]
Read MoreAuthors: Zachary Deutch, MD, FASA; Bryan D. Laliberte, MD, FASA ASA Monitor January 2023, Vol. 87, 1–11. Dr. Laliberte placing a chest tube on an injured Iraqi soldier with the assistance of emergency medicine physician Dr. Jillian Phelps in our ED/triage tent. Happy 2023 to all, and thank you for joining us for a very special column. […]
Read MoreAuthors: Richard Simoneaux; Steven L. Shafer, MD, FASA ASA Monitor January 2023, Vol. 87, 1–8. During the first two years of the pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 steadily evolved. The ancestral Wuhan strain gave way to the Alpha variant, followed by Beta, Gamma, and Delta variants, each more infectious than the last (ASA Monitor 2021;85:1-7). A year ago, the ultra-infectious […]
Read MoreAuthor: Hannah Viroslav, BA, MD ASA Monitor January 2023, Vol. 87, 35. The style of medical writing that residents are exposed to, both in medical school and throughout training, revolves around the many. We are taught to think in terms of evidence-based medicine – and with evidence, the power is in the numbers. Most literally, a […]
Read MoreAuthors:Hasushita, Yudai MD et al A & A Practice 16(9):p e01616, September 2022. Remimazolam is a recently approved benzodiazepine sedative. We report a case of a 72-year-old man who experienced a cardiac arrest due to severe anaphylaxis immediately after general anesthesia induction. Based on the results of skin tests, including those for dextran 40, an […]
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