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Uncategorized Published - 7 November, 2023    By - Dr Clemens
Be the Solution: How Anesthesiologists Offer Short- and Long-Term Solutions to Workforce Challenges

Author: Mary Dale Peterson, MD, MSHCA, FACHE, FASA ASA Monitor November 2023, Vol. 87, 32. I know I’m preaching to the choir when I say we all are feeling the effects of workforce challenges. This includes witnessing or even experiencing health care professional burnout, staff shortages, a backlog of elective surgeries and procedures, reduced OR capacity, […]

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Uncategorized Published - 7 November, 2023    By - Dr Clemens
Anesthesia Incident Reporting System (AIRS) Case 2023-11: Can ChatGPT Replace Your Team Today in the OR?

ASA Monitor November 2023, Vol. 87, 14. Case presentation: A 10-year-old boy with a complex past medical history notable for neonatal stroke resulting in cortical blindness, tracheoesophageal fistula repaired in infancy, and ASD/VSD repair requiring subsequent pacemaker placement and pacemaker dependence presented for iliac bone graft for correction of an alveolar maxillary cleft defect. During the […]

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Uncategorized Published - 7 November, 2023    By - Dr Clemens
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ASA Monitor November 2023, Vol. 87, 13. The Labor and Delivery Quality and Safety Committee at your institution has been evaluating strategies to decrease their higher-than-desired rate of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). They have initiated the administration of prophylactic intramuscular (IM) methylergonovine in women undergoing cesarean delivery while in labor, provided they have no contraindication to the […]

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Uncategorized Published - 7 November, 2023    By - Dr Clemens
The Heat Is On: Anesthesiologists Confronting Health Complications in a Warming World

Authors: Dibash Kumar Das, PhD; Steven Shafer, MD, FASA ASA Monitor November 2023, Vol. 87, 1–5. Anesthesiologists are often at the forefront of new challenges in patient care. Anesthesiologists will be leaders in adapting health care delivery and hospital infrastructure to the escalating impacts of climate change. Climate change has led to more frequent and severe extreme […]

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Uncategorized Published - 6 November, 2023    By - Dr Clemens
Comparison of the Analgesic Efficacy between Arthroscopically Placed Continuous Suprascapular Nerve Block and Ultrasound-guided Continuous Superior Trunk Block

Authors: Ha-Jung Kim, M.D., Ph.D. et al  Anesthesiology November 2023, Vol. 139, 591–601. Background Single-shot suprascapular nerve block and superior trunk block have been reported to provide a noninferior analgesic effect after shoulder surgery with a lesser incidence of hemidiaphragmatic paresis compared with interscalene brachial plexus block. This study hypothesized that continuous suprascapular nerve block provides […]

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