Authors: Jeanna D. Blitz, MD, FASA et al ASA Monitor March 2023, Vol. 87, 27–28. Brain health is inextricably linked with overall physical health. Evidence for the mind-body connection and the bi-directional relationship between them continues to emerge. The past decade has also seen the emergence of a focus on multifactorial quality and outcomes metrics within […]
Read MoreASA Monitor March 2023, Vol. 87, 11. Your next patient is a 5-year-old boy undergoing tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy. You decide to administer a loading dose of 30 mg/kg of oral acetaminophen. According to a recent trial, which of the following outcomes is MOST likely in this patient compared with a patient who receives a loading dose […]
Read MoreASA Monitor March 2023, Vol. 87, 10. A 35-year-old male presented to the radiology department for placement of a gastric feeding tube, with a request for anesthesia support. The patient had HIV/AIDS and active mpox (formerly “monkeypox”) infection, with multiple ulcerative lesions of the oral mucosa that made it painful to eat and drink. The anesthesia […]
Read MoreAuthors: D. Matthew Sherrer, MD, MBA, FASA, FAACD; et al ASA Monitor March 2023, Vol. 87, 1–8. Don’t harm me. Heal me. Hear me. For decades, health care organizations have held this high-reliability adage as the aspirational ideal for patient expectation. By reaching near Six-Sigma levels of safety, modern anesthesiologists have delivered on the first two […]
Read MoreAuthor: Avery Hurt Practical Pain Management Feb 2023 Vol 23 Issue 1 Chronic pelvic pain can be a challenge to treat for many reasons, not least because it manifests in myriad ways, making it difficult even to nail down a definition of the term. The pathology behind chronic pelvic pain (CPP) is equally complex. Even […]
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