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Authors: Lena Scotto, MD; Natalie Moreland, MD ASA Monitor March 2024, Vol. 88, 35. Individuals over the age of 65 make up the largest proportion of patients seeking surgical care. Advanced age and underlying cognitive disorders are risk factors for the development of cognitive impairment, the most common complication in this age group. Perioperative neurocognitive disorders (PNDs) […]
Read MoreAuthors: Cathlin Bowman-Young, MBA; Matthew T. Popovich, PhD ASA Monitor March 2024, Vol. 88, 24–25. As anesthesiologists and their groups are wrapping up the 2023 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) reporting year, we realize that those same groups are determining their MIPS 2024 quality measures and improvement activities to report. We take a moment to share with […]
Read MoreASA Monitor March 2024, Vol. 88, 14. CD8+ T cell activity could improve effectiveness of HIV vaccine A study funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases suggests that an effective HIV vaccine might need to stimulate robust responses from CD8+ T cells to protect against HIV acquisition. In HIV infection, the virus damages […]
Read MoreAuthors: Alhassan Datti Mohammed, BM, BCh, DA (Ibadan), FWACS et al ASA Monitor March 2024, Vol. 88, 17–19. Critical care is time-critical care provided anywhere a critically ill patient needs it. Not exclusive to the intensive care unit, critically ill patients are pediatric, elderly, parturient, and adults. At the 2023 World Health Assembly, the “ECO” resolution […]
Read MoreAuthor: Robin Hocevar ASA Monitor March 2024, Vol. 88, 34. It’s every anesthesiologist’s worst nightmare. On a Friday afternoon, a teenage boy presents to the OR for a routine ACL surgery. The surgical team worked while listening to music and chatting about weekend plans. Nobody on the team could hear the descending pitch of the pulse […]
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