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Author: Richard P. Dutton, MD, MBA, FASA ASA Monitor December 2022, Vol. 86, 27. “He looks like he’s having fun – he ought to be grateful!” I imagine that’s what the editors were thinking when they invited this submission, perhaps based on my uniquely varied professional career or after noting my usual state of enthusiasm. After […]
Read MoreAuthors: Richard Simoneaux; Steven L. Shafer, MD, FASA ASA Monitor December 2022, Vol. 86, 1–18. In the first half of the 20th century, summers in the U.S. were punctuated by sporadic outbreaks of paralytic poliomyelitis in school-age children. In the 1940s, more than 30,000 children were disabled by polio every year (asamonitor.pub/3CCVsYS). Parents were afraid to let […]
Read MoreAuthors George Tewfik, MD, MBA, FASA; Samuel Mark Paschall ASA Monitor December 2022, Vol. 86, 1–8. Health care workers, and anesthesia providers specifically, had likely never given much thought to supply chains until the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the world shut down, and we shifted our practices to emergency procedures, careful intubations, and ventilator management, […]
Read MoreAuthor: Sabina Ali Khan, MD ASA Monitor December 2022, Vol. 86, 24–25. “Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity. It makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” – Melody Beattie As an avid reader, the […]
Read MoreAuthors: Junlin Wen, Ph.D. et al Anesthesiology November 2022. To the Editor: We read the article by Amar et al. with great interest. Their trial addressed whether N-acetylcysteine can prevent atrial fibrillation after thoracic surgery. A secondary analysis examined perioperative systemic markers of inflammation, oxidative stress, and the incidence of atrial fibrillation after discharge. We thank the authors […]
Read MoreAuthors: David Amar, M.D. et al Anesthesiology November 2022. In Reply: We thank Dr. Kinoshita and Dr. Kawashima, and Dr. Wen, Dr. Huang, and Dr. Li for their comments and their interest in our work. In the comments from Kinoshita and Kawashima, they speculate that exposing our patients to a high fraction of inspired oxygen during one-lung ventilation […]
Read MoreAuthors: Mary Dale Peterson, MD, MHA, FACHE, FASA; Mike Schweitzer, MD, MBA ASA Monitor December 2022, Vol. 86, 1–5. Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, hospital and health system executives face enormous financial pressures. Labor costs are up across the board, including for anesthesia services, and anesthesiologists must recognize that hospital and health system executives typically view the […]
Read MoreAuthors: George Williams, MD, FASA, FCCM, FCCP; Erin Scott Williams, MD, FAAP ASA Monitor December 2022, Vol. 86, 23. The past year, and furthermore, the past several years, have been quite interesting and eventful to be sure. A torrent of troubling news pertinent to every demographic, social class, community, and profession has become part of the daily […]
Read MoreAuthors: Brittany N. Burton, M.D., M.H.S., M.A.S. et al Anesthesiology January 2023, Vol. 138, 116–117. To the Editor: We have read the study titled “Personalized Surgical Transfusion Risk Prediction Using Machine Learning to Guide Preoperative Type and Screen Orders” by Lou et al.1 and the accompanying editorial titled “Moving from ‘Surgeries’ to Patients: Progress and Pitfalls While Using […]
Read MoreAutors: Matthew A. C. Zapf, M.D. et al Anesthesiology January 2023, Vol. 138, 117–118. To the Editor: We have read with great interest the recent article by Lou et al., in which they used the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program participant use data file to expertly develop a transfusion prediction model with the goal […]
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