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Residents interested in emergency medicine and anesthesiology can now have the best of both worlds—at the same time. The American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) and the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) launched a combined training option that will offer residents the opportunity to get certified for both specialties. “The combined training programs in emergency […]
Read MoreSource: The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 3 CD010135 (Mar 2016) AUTHORS: R, Srivastava A et al BACKGROUND Anaesthetic drugs during general anaesthesia are titrated according to sympathetic or somatic responses to surgical stimuli. It is now possible to measure depth of anaesthesia using electroencephalography (EEG). Entropy, an EEG-based monitor can be used to assess […]
Read MoreTwenty-six seconds: That’s the average amount of extra time it might take an anesthesia resident to exchange up to 20% more information when using a new PACU handoff checklist developed by researchers at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, a new study suggests. The PACU is a “high-risk environment” where health care providers are multitasking rapidly to […]
Read MoreThe use of peripheral nerve blocks (PNBs) is associated with better medical and economic outcomes in patients receiving hip and knee replacement, according to a study being presented later this month at the 41st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. The use of PNBs is on the rise, but […]
Read MoreAnesthesia & Analgesia: March 2016 AUTHORS: Subramanian, Balachundhar MD et al BACKGROUND: The purpose of this multicenter pilot study was to: (1) determine the frequency of regional cerebral oxygen saturation (rScO2) desaturations during cardiac surgery involving cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB); (2) evaluate the accuracy of clinician-identified rScO2 desaturations compared with those recorded continuously during surgery by […]
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