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Uncategorized Published - 14 September, 2023    By - Dr Clemens
Deep Sedation for Nonanesthesia Professionals: Do You Know the Guidelines?

Author: Kelly Wolfgang ASA Monitor September 2023, Vol. 87, 31. The ASA guidelines make it clear: Physician anesthesiologist, certified registered nurse anesthetist, and certified anesthesiologist assistant participation in all deep sedation procedures provides the safest patient care overall. Yet, throughout the country, deep sedation is being provided by qualified nonanesthesia professionals, backed by Medicare regulations that […]

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Uncategorized Published - 14 September, 2023    By - Dr Clemens
Anesthesia Incident Reporting System (AIRS) Case 2023-09: Who Ya Gonna Call?

ASA Monitor September 2023, Vol. 87, 10. This month’s AIRS case reports both deal with communication. As we’ve done before, we presented the cases this time in a format that we’ve borrowed from NASA’s CALLBACK publication, which discusses events that have been entered into the Aviation Safety Reporting System. We’ll let you “interact” with the information […]

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Uncategorized Published - 13 September, 2023    By - Dr Clemens
Medicare’s Budget Neutrality Rule

Radius Anesthesia Medicare, the federal health insurance program that provides coverage for Americans aged 65 and older, has been a cornerstone of the nation’s healthcare system for decades. As healthcare costs have continued to rise, the need for fiscal responsibility and sustainability has become increasingly critical (1). In response to economic challenges, Medicare implemented several […]

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Uncategorized Published - 13 September, 2023    By - Dr Clemens
Self-Management Can Work in Chronic Pain Care

Author: Heidi Splete Practical Pain Management August 2023 Adults with chronic pain experienced positive changes in their daily lives after participating in a self-management intervention in a primary care setting, based on data from a small qualiative study involving 17 individuals.1 Current guidance for the management of chronic pain includes individualized and multidisciplinary strategies, wrote Ragnhild […]

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Uncategorized Published - 13 September, 2023    By - Dr Clemens
Making the Case for Daily POCUS Use

Authors: Amber Campbell, MD, MS et al ASA Monitor September 2023, Vol. 87, 34. The contribution of physicists and physics research has paved the way for many technological breakthroughs within the past two centuries. Radar, cellular phones, the internet, MRI, and even the discovery of the structure of DNA are attributable to physicists and their research. […]

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