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Author: Rob Clemens MD, MBA, PhD Introduction Hospitals are complex institutions where various departments work together to provide top-notch medical care to patients. Among these departments, the Anesthesia Department often operates behind the scenes, yet it plays a pivotal role in ensuring the success of surgeries and various medical procedures. In this blog, we will […]
Read MoreAuthor: Asha Clarke, MD ASA Monitor February 2024, Vol. 88, 1–7. Ultrasound image showing the placement of a lumbar plexus nerve catheter. Photo courtesy of Asha Clarke, MD. Gaston Labat stated in the forward to his seminal “Regional Anesthesia” textbook, “I do not look forward to the day when regional anesthesia will wholly displace general anesthesia; […]
Read MoreASA Monitor February 2024, Vol. 88, 26–27. Anesthesiologists may be asked to work in atypical situations in which features of the environment or procedure require additional resources or increased cognitive load that threaten patient or staff safety. Nonoperating room anesthesia Nonoperating room anesthesia (NORA) is a rapidly growing anesthesia service that includes the MRI environment. […]
Read MoreAuthor: Jodi D. Sherman, MD ASA Monitor February 2024, Vol. 88, 33. Recently, hospitals on three separate continents independently discovered that most of their nitrous oxide (between 75% and 95%) leaks out through central piping manifolds prior to use, wasting money and polluting the atmosphere (Anaesthesia 2022;77:1023-9). This led to the creation of the Nitrous Oxide […]
Read MoreAuthors: Nicholas L. Pesa, MD et al ASA Monitor February 2024, Vol. 88, 29–30. Critical care medicine as an anesthesiology board subspecialty was established in 1986. Interestingly, in the early 1980s, other specialties, including internal medicine and surgery, attempted to create a unified Board of Critical Care Medicine (Anesthesiology 2001;95:781-8). This was ultimately unsuccessful due to disagreements […]
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