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Read MoreAuthors: Monica Lupei, MD et al ASA Monitor April 2022, Vol. 86, 34–35. As anesthesiologists, intensivists, and surgeons in a quaternary academic medical center, we often find ourselves in situations where life-altering decisions need to be made in a complex environment with incomplete and rapidly changing information. In our estimation, this has never been truer than […]
Read MoreASA Monitor April 2022, Vol. 86, 16. An anesthesia incident reporter writes: “Patient arrives and was administered a slew of sedatives and anesthesia, dropping their heart rate to the point where a new device has to be placed because the original one is now broken, and now there is no way to extract it.” This reporter […]
Read MoreASA Monitor April 2022, Vol. 86, 12. A 60-year-old man with chronic back pain presents for spine surgery. According to a recent study comparing the use of conditioned open-label placebo with treatment as usual after spine surgery, which of the following outcomes is MOST likely in the conditioned open-label placebo group? □ (A) Lower postoperative […]
Read MoreAuthor: Samuel H. Wald, MD, MBA, FASA ASA Monitor April 2022, Vol. 86, 27–28. Stanford Clinical Assistant Professor Praveen Kalra, MD (left), and Resident Alexandra Klein, MD (right), work with PPE trainer Dane Marin from Performance Medical Group to learn how to correctly don PPE back in 2020. The idea of crisis resource management in anesthesiology […]
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