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Authors: Weston G, Sweeney M, Zeltzer L. Pract Pain Manag. 2022 November/December;22(6). When children come to your office due to persistent or chronic pain, odds are that you are not going to be their first experience with the medical field. They have, most likely, already filled out questionnaires, participated in assessments, undergone a variety of […]
Read MoreAuthors: Matthew T. Popovich, PhD; Claire Ostarello, CPHQ ASA Monitor November 2022, Vol. 86, 39–40. Although health disparities have long existed, the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 focused the general public, health care leaders, and patient advocates on identifying pathways to reduce disparities and improve health equity. For anesthesiologists and their groups, reducing disparities and contributing to greater […]
Read MoreAuthor: Holshouser B et al Pract Pain Manag. 2022 September/October;22(5). For children and adolescents, the prevalence of migraine by age 15 is 8% to 23%, and around 38.8% of Americans age 12 and older should be offered or considered for preventive migraine treatment.¹˒² Due to the debilitating nature of migraine disorder, it is important to […]
Read MoreAuthors: Julia Plakhotnik, B.Sc. et al Anesthesiology December 2022, Vol. 137, 687–703. Background Long-lasting local anesthetic use for perioperative pain control is limited by possible cardiotoxicity (e.g., arrhythmias and contractile depression), potentially leading to cardiac arrest. Off-target cardiac sodium channel blockade is considered the canonical mechanism behind cardiotoxicity; however, it does not fully explain the observed […]
Read MoreAuthors: Andrew Bowdle, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.S.E.; Srdjan Jelacic, M.D., F.A.S.E.; Kelly Michaelsen, M.D., Ph.D Anesthesiology November 2022. To the Editor: We strongly support the implementation of quantitative twitch monitoring to guide neuromuscular blocker administration and to ensure that patients have recovered adequately before extubation, and we applaud the efforts of Weigel et al. and others to do so. Weigel et al. used […]
Read MoreAuthors: Wade A. Weigel, M.D.; Wyndam M. Strodtbeck, M.D. Anesthesiology November 2022. In Reply: We thank Dr. Bowdle et al. for their interest in our article showing how quantitative monitoring can be incorporated into clinical practice. We fear they may have missed the major lesson of this work, however, which was modifying clinician behavior so that the vast majority […]
Read MoreAuthor: Arnoley S. Abcejo, MD ASA Monitor November 2022, Vol. 86, 44. Concussion, or mild traumatic brain injury, results from a physical blow to the head, often synonymous with post-injury concussive symptoms such as headache, cognitive impairment, and sleep disturbance. Our understanding of this disease has grown rapidly over the last two decades. We know that […]
Read MoreAuthors: Toby N. Weingarten, M.D.; Juraj Sprung, M.D., Ph.D. Anesthesiology December 2022, Vol. 137, 735–741. Postoperative respiratory failure secondary to opioid-induced respiratory depression (hereafter termed respiratory depression) can result in permanent morbidity, such as anoxic brain injury, or even death. In many cases, the respiratory failure seems to develop acutely and without warning, often shortly after seemingly reassuring […]
Read MoreAuthor: Avery Hurt Practical Pain Management Oct 21, 2022 Pain researchers at the University of Michigan have been awarded $7.4 million from the Veteran Marijuana Research (VMR) grant program to study the effectiveness of cannabidiol (CBD) and medical cannabis products. The grant study, “Pragmatic Trial of Cannabidiol and Tailored Cannabis Coaching to Improve Chronic Pain […]
Read MoreAuthor: Patsy Newitt Becker’s ASC Review Former CEO and owner of Sarasota (Fla.) Pain Associates Steven Chun, MD, has been sentenced to three years and six months in prison for his role in a $4.5 million fentanyl kickback scheme, the Justice Department said Dec. 7. Dr. Chun, 59, must also forfeit $278,900, the proceeds of his offenses. […]
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