Authors: Mychaela Mathews; Paul Guillod, MD; Steven Greenberg, MD, FCCP, FCCM Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Volume 40, No. 2 • June 2025 Opioids have served a primary role in surgical pain control since the isolation of morphine in the 19th century through the development of synthetic agonists used in modern anesthesia. While opioids offer potent analgesia, […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Blacker, Samuel N. MD, FASA et al Anesthesia & Analgesia 140(6):p 1253-1262, June 2025. BACKGROUND: Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT) has been tested and has passed various high-level examinations. However, it has not been tested on an examination such as the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) Standardized Oral Examination (SOE). The SOE is designed to […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Obeidat, Salameh S. MD, MSc et al Anesthesia & Analgesia 140(2):p 253-261, February 2025. BACKGROUND: Several health care networks have fully adopted second-generation supraglottic airway (SGA) i-gel. Real-world evidence of enhanced patient safety after such practice change is lacking. We hypothesized that the implementation of i-gel compared to the previous LMA®-Unique™ would be associated with […]
Read MoreAuthor: Claire Wallace ASC Review Six months after a major insurance company withdrew plans for a policy that would have allowed health insurers to place time limits on anesthesia care, a New York State Assembly bill and a New York Senate bill may resurrect the policy. Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield floated a policy that would have […]
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