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Author: Steven L. Shafer, MD, FASA ASA Monitor September 2022, Vol. 86, 21–22. Being on the receiving end of reports about imagined misconduct has sensitized me to the misuse of anonymous event reporting systems. Health care organizations need reporting systems to identify events and behaviors that reduce safety and harm patients. Frank and honest reporting is […]
Read MoreAuthor: Amanda Xi MD blog.amandaxi.com August 17, 2022 I took my anesthesia critical care medicine board examination on October 9, 2021 – a significant delay from my graduation from my fellowship in June 2020 because of pandemic restrictions. It was a different experience studying for this exam because I was working as an attending at […]
Read MoreAuthor: Greg Sackuvich Practical Pain Management Jul 28, 2022 With gaps in defining refractory pain (is it the same as chronic pain?), both physicians and researchers are focusing on underlying pathologies and treatment options beyond opioids to help patients. A key step in managing a medical condition is to define it and then develop a […]
Read MoreRadius Anesthesia August 17, 2022 Ensuring a swift discharge after surgery is important for patient outcomes and helps reduce health care costs 1. A number of factors can influence time to discharge following surgery, ranging from anesthesia to perioperative workflow. First, even after controlling for other clinically important factors, anesthetic management during surgery can affect postoperative length of stay. […]
Read MoreAuthors: Mike Charlesworth and Andrew Klein TheAnesthesiaBlog August 15, 2022 It is not clear yet why facemask ventilation becomes easier following neuromuscular blockade. This new prospective observational study from Lee et al. evaluates changes in tidal volume after administration of neuromuscular blockade and assesses the correlation of this with changes in the vocal cord angle. […]
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