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Uncategorized Published - 29 August, 2023    By - Dr Clemens
Electrical Impedance Tomography Identifies Evolution of Regional Perfusion in a Porcine Model of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Authors: Kevin T Martin, M.D. et al  Anesthesiology August 2023. Background Bedside electrical impedance tomography (EIT) could be useful to visualize evolving pulmonary perfusion distributions when acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) worsens or in response to ventilatory and positional therapies. In experimental ARDS, we evaluated the agreement of EIT and dynamic-contrast enhanced computed tomography (CT) […]

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Uncategorized Published - 28 August, 2023    By - Dr Clemens
Quality of recovery after surgery

Authors: Mike Charlesworth and Andrew Klein #TheAnesthesiaBlog We often hear calls for the use of PROMs and PREMs in research, and a range of studies report their use in the September issue. O’Carroll et al. report the largest multicentre dataset of day 1 and 30 postpartum recovery metrics using PROMs in patients from the UK. They […]

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Uncategorized Published - 28 August, 2023    By - Dr Clemens
University of Toronto: Edgy, Dissatisfied, Curious, and Committed

Author: Madeline Talbot ASA Monitor August 2023, Vol. 87, 37. The University of Toronto’s Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine is enormous. Composed of over 700 faculty members and trainees, the university is part of the Toronto Academic Health Science Network, and the department currently closely partners with six fully affiliated hospitals and 11 community hospitals. […]

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Uncategorized Published - 28 August, 2023    By - Dr Clemens
Perioperative Personal Electronic Devices: Tool or Curse?

Authors: Christine T. Moshe, MD et al  ASA Monitor August 2023, Vol. 87, 21–23. With the development of the electronic record to the COVID-era growth of telehealth, health care is adapting and expanding to newer electronic formats. The use of cell phones, smartphones, tablets, and other personal electronic devices (PEDs) within health care systems naturally extends […]

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Uncategorized Published - 28 August, 2023    By - Dr Clemens
Interprofessional Teamwork in a Tertiary Referral Academic Hospital in Boston

Authors: Shahla Siddiqui, MD, MSc, FCCM et al  ASA Monitor April 2022, Vol. 86, 40–41. Our institution, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston, is a teaching tertiary referral academic hospital of Harvard Medical School. There are 673 licensed beds, including 493 medical/surgical beds. There are 77 critical care beds and 62 OB/GYN beds. The […]

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