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Keeping children safe during anesthesia requires evidence-based knowledge of how to prevent, identify and manage anesthesia-related complications. It’s an issue that develops more often in children than adults. In Saturday’s session “Complications in Pediatric Anesthesia — How to Stay Out of Trouble!,” Linda J. Mason, M.D., FASA, Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, Loma Linda University, […]
Read MoreSurgical site infections (SSIs) account for approximately 20 percent of all hospital-acquired infections, and nearly 60 percent of these infections are preventable. Established guidelines help reduce the rate of SSIs, but are these guidelines effective? “The session, “Surgical Site Infections: Is My Cloth Hat Really Killing People?,” arose originally from the ongoing surge in practices […]
Read MoreAuthors: Daniel I. Sessler, M.D. et al Anesthesiology October 12, 2018. What We Already Know about This Topic: Intraoperative triple-low events (mean arterial pressure less than 75 mmHg, Bispectral Index less than 45, and minimum alveolar fraction of anesthetic less than 0.8) have been found to be associated with increased risk of mortality What This Article […]
Read MoreIntubation is a standard part of airway management in the O.R., ICU and other settings. At some point, every intubation will be followed by an extubation. But what if the extubation has complications? Few anesthesiologists think about strategies for reintubation until problems have already begun to escalate. “Extubation has percolated into most airway guidelines at […]
Read MoreAuthor: Lenny Bernstein Washington Post October 3 Illicit drug users who are certain that fentanyl is mixed into the heroin they consume are much more likely to take precautions that reduce their chances of overdosing, researchers reported Wednesday in a small study. The survey examined the use of fentanyl test strips by 125 injection drug […]
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