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: Faloye AO et al. Source: Anesthesia & Analgesia, 142(2):215–218, February 2026. SummaryThis editorial evaluates the role of multimodal analgesia within Enhanced Recovery After Cardiac Surgery (ERACS) pathways in light of a large multicenter retrospective analysis by Kleiman et al using Society of Thoracic Surgeons data. While Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocols have shown […]
Read MoreAuthor: Patsy Newitt Becker’s ASC Review Cardiology’s shift to the outpatient setting is accelerating, but leaders say anesthesia capacity could become a limiting factor as more complex procedures move beyond the hospital. In its 2026 final rule published Nov. 21, CMS approved four cardiovascular codes for electrophysiology studies and ablations and three codes for percutaneous coronary intervention. […]
Read MoreAuthors: Motamed C et al. Source: Anesthesia & Analgesia, 142(2):261–263, February 2026. SummaryThis editorial explores phonomyography (PMG), also referred to as acoustic myography, as a renewed approach to quantitative perioperative neuromuscular blockade monitoring. Prompted by a study from Dong et al evaluating a new PMG prototype, the authors place this technology within the broader landscape […]
Read MoreAuthors: Connor CW et al. Source: Anesthesia & Analgesia, 142(2):245–248, February 2026. SummaryThis editorial reframes how anesthesiologists should think about intraoperative EEG analysis by arguing that the so-called “background noise” of the EEG contains meaningful physiological signal. Using an analogy of analyzing a modern computer with primitive radio-frequency tools, the author illustrates how scale-free activity—information […]
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