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Author: David P. Martin, MD, PhD, FASA ASA Monitor May 2023, Vol. 87, 7–8. I look forward to meeting you in person at the ASA annual meeting in San Francisco this October. As part of the ongoing process to improve the meeting experience, ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2023 will feature some new initiatives designed to support and assist attendees. I’m […]
Read MoreAuthors: Zachary Deutch, MD, FASA; Dennis E. McCarthy, MD ASA Monitor May 2023, Vol. 87, 28–29. The economic, social, and political climate of our world is volatile and can be very challenging to navigate. This also holds true for the specific microclimate most of us dwell in professionally, namely perioperative medicine. Given this, I do not think […]
Read MoreAuthors: Evan Liu, BS et al ASA Monitor May 2023, Vol. 87, e7. Women who have cesarean delivery under neuraxial anesthesia often bring a smartphone into the OR to take pictures of this special moment in their lives. However, due to positioning, nausea and vomiting, and other elements unique to the OR, patients may not be […]
Read MoreAuthors: Nakia M. Hunter, MD; Umar Kamal, MD ASA Monitor May 2023, Vol. 87, 22–23. As the maternal mortality crisis in the United States worsens, qualified anesthesiologists are in greater demand than ever before. According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), global maternal mortality rates […]
Read MoreAuthor: Ritu Kapoor, MD ASA Monitor May 2023, Vol. 87, 19. As the anesthesiologist, you enter the delivery room and look around. The obstetrician is at the foot of the bed, the labor and delivery nurse is measuring the vital signs, the patient’s partner is holding her hand. And then your eyes land on another person: […]
Read MoreAuthor: Barbara M. Rogers, MD, MBOE, FASA ASA Monitor May 2023, Vol. 87, 17. For the average anesthesiologist, the thought of working on the OB “floor” brings either delight or terror. The schizophrenic nature of the day – from routine labor epidurals and scheduled cesarean sections, to stat life-threatening emergencies – can lead to exhaustion and […]
Read MoreAuthor: Bennett K. Pract Pain Manag. 2023 May/June;22(3). In early 2020, PPM covered the rapid rise of non-opioid pain policies across the nation, as legislatures and insurers had begun focusing intensely on policies that encouraged, incentivized, and even mandated the use of alternatives to opioid therapy for the treatment of pain. Three years on, policymakers at all levels […]
Read MoreAuthors: Nikhil Kumar, M.D. et al Anesthesiology April 2023. The accompanying images demonstrate the presence of the distal end of a chest tube in the tracheal lumen just above the carina. These images are from a patient who developed coughing and massive air leak after chest tube placement. Inadvertent tracheal injury during chest tube placement […]
Read MoreAuthors: P J Devereaux et al N Engl J Med. 2022 May 26;386(21):1986-1997 Background: Perioperative bleeding is common in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery. Tranexamic acid is an antifibrinolytic drug that may safely decrease such bleeding. Methods: We conducted a trial involving patients undergoing noncardiac surgery. Patients were randomly assigned to receive tranexamic acid (1-g intravenous bolus) or […]
Read MoreAuthors: Christine Jette, MD, FASA et al ASA Monitor April 2023, Vol. 87, 10–12. Safe access to pediatric surgery and anesthesia care in rural America is critical to having an equitable health care system. The American College of Surgeons (ACS) Children’s Surgery Verification (CSV) Quality Improvement Program provides standards defining “the resources believed necessary to achieve […]
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