Burnout or time away in pain, ICU, or administration doesn’t erase your anesthesia training—it just requires a structured path back. For many physicians, it simply means you stepped away to regroup. We work with anesthesiologists every day who want to return to clinical anesthesia after time away in: administration or leadership roles pain medicine critical […]
Read MoreAuthors: Hedov J et al. Anesthesiology, February 25, 2026. Capnodynamic Cardiac Output Assessment in a Porcine Model of Aorto-Pulmonary Shunt. This experimental study examined whether capnodynamic monitoring reflects systemic blood flow or pulmonary blood flow when a left-to-right cardiac shunt is present. Capnodynamic monitoring is a minimally invasive technique that estimates effective pulmonary blood flow […]
Read MoreAuthors: Delaporte A et al. Anesthesiology Open 1(1): e0004 10.1097/ao9.0000000000000004 SummaryThis large single-center retrospective cohort study evaluated whether intraoperative hypotension is associated with delayed graft function (DGF) after kidney transplantation. The investigators analyzed 3,825 consecutive first kidney transplants (2013–2024), including both deceased (68%) and living donors (32%). Combined transplants were excluded. Intraoperative hypotension was quantified […]
Read MoreAuthors: Angeletti C et al. Cureus 18(2): e104300 10.7759/cureus.104300 SummaryThis retrospective case series describes six adult women who underwent latissimus dorsi (LD) flap breast reconstruction (March 2022–December 2024) and received ultrasound-guided erector spinae plane block (ESPB) as the cornerstone regional technique, with selective addition of a parasternal intercostal plane (PIP) block when additional anterior chest […]
Read MoreAuthors: Chu L F et al. Anesthesiology, February 23, 2026 Summary This Focal Point commentary examines the tension between productivity-driven evaluation systems and the cultivation of creativity in academic medicine. The authors argue that while modern academic departments reward measurable outputs—grants, publications, relative value units—they often assume that creativity will naturally follow productivity. That assumption, […]
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