Authors: Jeffrey M. Feldman, MD, MSE; Samsun (Sem) Lampotang, PhD, FSSH, FAIMBE ASA Monitor March 2023, Vol. 87, 36. “The signs of oxygen want and plane of anesthesia as shown by color, muscular phenomena, etc. must be watched constantly…” Ralph Waters, MD, Anesthesia & Analgesia, 1926 One hundred years ago, Dr. Ralph Waters introduced carbon dioxide absorbents to […]
Read MoreAuthors: Gavin Ovsak, MD, MBA; Lalitha Sundararaman, MBBS, MD ASA Monitor March 2023, Vol. 87, 25–26.g Editor’s Note: This article is the second in a series on medical wearable devices. Opinions stated here are solely those of the authors. ASA does not endorse these or any other products. While this is not a scientific product review […]
Read MoreAuthors: Richard Simoneaux; Steven L. Shafer, MD, FASA, Editor-in-Chief ASA Monitor March 2023, Vol. 87, 1–6. We can’t get a break! Having battled SARS-CoV-2 for the past two years, the past few months have seen health care systems facing a “tridemic” comprising COVID, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and influenza. The national surge in RSV has been widely […]
Read MoreASA Monitor March 2023, Vol. 87, 12. During emergence from a knee arthroscopy procedure using general anesthesia with a laryngeal mask airway, a 25-year-old, otherwise healthy woman develops laryngospasm requiring the administration of succinylcholine. An hour after the end of the case, she is in the recovery area, awake and alert, but requiring nasal cannula oxygen […]
Read MoreAuthors: Adjoa Boateng, MD, MPH, Laurel S. Braitman, PhD ASA Monitor March 2023, Vol. 87, 16–17. In the past five years, the landscape of medicine has changed drastically for patients and providers, from the rising use of informatics to the widening gap among the iron triangle of access, quality, and cost of care laid bare by the […]
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