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Uncategorized Published - 17 June, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
PROBAST Assessment of Machine Learning: Reply

Authors: Pietro Arina, M.D. et al  Anesthesiology May 2024. In Reply: We thank Bignami et al.  for their insightful letter and their kind remarks regarding our recent publication. We fully concur that the challenge of refining search terms to enhance the specificity and breadth of literature searches is a genuine concern. This is fundamental in ensuring […]

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Uncategorized Published - 15 June, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
Paravertebral Block for Multiple Rib Fractures in an Anticoagulated Trauma Patient

 Authors: Lee M, Ayad M, Diz Ferre J L, et al. Cureus  June 06, 202416(6): e61834. Abstract This case report presents the complex analgesia management of a 52-year-old male with a significant medical history including atrial fibrillation treated with apixaban, essential trigeminal neuralgia, non-ischemic cardiomyopathy, and chronic systolic heart failure. The patient experienced a loss […]

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Uncategorized Published - 14 June, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
Stanford’s Pediatric Immersive Technology Program Reduces Pain Perception, Anxiety

Author: Pamela Schumacher, MSC, CCMP ASA Monitor June 2024, Vol. 88, 35–37. Immersive technologies such as augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) have the potential to transform health care, alleviate pain and anxiety, deliver new types of treatments and diagnostics, and change how and where care is delivered (asamonitor.pub/49UMbu2). “The use of […]

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Uncategorized Published - 14 June, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
The average anesthesia cost for 5 common ASC procedures

Author: Claire Wallace Becker’s ASC Review Here is the average cost of anesthesia care in the ASC setting for five procedures commonly performed at ASCs, according to data from Sidecar Health: Upper GI endoscopy: $302 Knee arthroscopy: $1,017 Colonoscopy: $258 Cataract eye surgery: $386 Shoulder arthroscopy: $778

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Uncategorized Published - 14 June, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
Teamwork

ASA Monitor June 2024, Vol. 88, 34. “Teamwork may be just as hard in certain lines of work. Under conditions of extreme complexity, we inevitably rely on a division of tasks and expertise – in the operating room, for example, there is a surgeon, the surgical assistant, the scrub nurse, the circulating nurse, the anesthesiologist, and […]

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