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Anesthesia & Analgesia: August 2015 – Volume 121 – Issue 2 – p 410–421 Authors: Jelacic, Srdjan MD et al BACKGROUND: Many anesthetic drug errors result from vial or syringe swaps. Scanning the barcodes on vials before drug preparation, creating syringe labels that include barcodes, and scanning the syringe label barcodes before drug administration may […]
Read MoreAnesthesia & Analgesia: August 2015 – Volume 121 – Issue 2 – p 404–409 Authors: Ladha, Karim S. MD et al BACKGROUND: Anesthesia-related medication shortages have become increasingly common in the United States. We tested whether a local shortage of pharmacy-prepared ephedrine syringes, replaced by provider-prepared ephedrine, was associated with provider-level changes in ephedrine and […]
Read MoreAnesthesia & Analgesia: August 2015 – Volume 121 – Issue 2 – p 383–391 Authors: Thonnerieux, Magalie MD et al BACKGROUND: Alveolar recruitment maneuvers (ARMs) are known to improve perioperative morbidity but can transiently impact cardiac output (CO). This reproducible hemodynamic perturbation creates a clinical opportunity to test multiple devices during acute changes in CO. […]
Read MoreAnesthesia & Analgesia: August 2015 – Volume 121 – Issue 2 – p 366–372 Authors: Fortier, Louis-Philippe MSc, MD, FRCPC et al BACKGROUND: Postoperative residual neuromuscular blockade (NMB), defined as a train-of-four (TOF) ratio of <0.9, is an established risk factor for critical postoperative respiratory events and increased morbidity. At present, little is known about […]
Read MoreAnesthesia & Analgesia: August 2015 – Volume 121 – Issue 2 – p 357–365 Authors: Short, Timothy G. MBChB, MD, FANZCA et al BACKGROUND: An association between relatively deep anesthesia, as guided by the bispectral index (BIS), and increased postoperative mortality has been demonstrated in 6 of 8 published observational studies, but association does not […]
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