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Authors: George Tewfik MD, MBA, FASA, CPE, MSBA et al Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Oct 2023 BACKGROUND Food bolus impaction and foreign object ingestion are aberrant clinical conditions that often require urgent intervention including endoscopy with either a push or retrieval technique.1 Patients presenting with foreign body ingestion or impaction may subsequently develop catastrophic sequelae such […]
Read MoreAuthors: Molly M.H. Herr, MD; Leal G. Segura, MD Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Oct 2023 In anesthesiology, the use of single-use devices has sky-rocketed over the last two decades. Single-use devices used in anesthesia practice, including laryngoscopes, video laryngoscopes, blood pressure cuffs, medical gowns, operating room hats and attire, and pulse oximetry probes are often […]
Read MoreAuthor: Jerome Lax, MD Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Oct 2023 Dear RAPID Response Recently at our institution, toward the end of a laparotomy, a puzzling event occurred. As a radiofrequency detection wand (Medtronic Situate™ Detection System X, New Haven, CT ) was waved over the abdomen, an electronic interference alert was triggered. Subsequent assessment of […]
Read MoreAuthors: Eileen Nguyen, M.D., Ph.D. et al Anesthesiology October 2023, Vol. 139, 462–475. Background Pharmacologic manipulations directed at the periaqueductal gray have demonstrated the importance of the μ-opioid receptor in modulating reflexive responses to nociception. The authors hypothesized that a supraspinal pathway centered on neurons in the periaqueductal gray containing the μ-opioid receptor could modulate nociceptive […]
Read MoreAuthor: Jonathan B. Cohen, MD, MS Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Oct 2023 In March of this year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray for over-the-counter, nonprescription use. This move was consistent with longstanding recommendations by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) and testimony given before several of its committees […]
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