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Author: 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 […]
Read MoreAuthor: Dave Muoio J Fierce Healthcare Over half of the country’s rural hospitals aren’t offering labor and delivery services, and many of those that are could soon be forced to end maternity care due to financial losses, according to the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform (CHQPR). The center wrote in a new report that over […]
Read MoreAuthor: Dave Fornell Cardiovascular Business In recent years, advancements in healthcare have led to a growing population of older adults living with heart disease. Consequently, there has been an increasing demand for advanced heart failure therapies, including heart transplantation, for these patients. Researchers at the New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine recently presented statistics on […]
Read MoreASA Monitor February 2024, Vol. 88, 13. Which of the following associated cardiovascular anomalies is MOST likely to be found in a 15-year-old boy presenting for angiographic balloon dilatation and stenting of aortic coarctation? (A) Bicuspid aortic valve (B) Tetralogy of Fallot (C) Vascular ring Coarctation of the aorta is a congenital defect most often diagnosed […]
Read MoreASA Monitor February 2024, Vol. 88, 16. Severity of tuberculosis in patients with type 2 diabetes A collaborative study between A∗STAR Infectious Diseases Labs and the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School reveals that elevated glycerol levels contribute to increased severity of tuberculosis (TB) in experimental models with type 2 diabetes. TB caused 1.3 million deaths […]
Read MoreAuthor: Steven L. Shafer, MD, FASA ASA Monitor February 2024, Vol. 88, 1–4. It’s obvious that the Earth rotates around the sun, that stars are distant suns, that you push on the chest if you want to circulate blood during CPR, and that you should gradually raise the head and thorax if you want to better […]
Read MoreAuthors: Samuel Percy, MD et al ASA Monitor February 2024, Vol. 88, 20–21. Anesthesia providers working at Navajo Nation health care facilities face many challenges, including a rural setting, late presentation of advanced pathology, and limited support staff. These challenges contribute to high numbers of open positions and short-term contract providers. However, for those willing to […]
Read MoreAuthors: Dibash Kumar Das, PhD; Steven L. Shafer, MD, FASA ASA Monitor January 2024, Vol. 88, 1–7. The COVID-19 pandemic spurred unprecedented advances in many aspects of biomedicine. Among the most astonishing was the rapid development of mRNA vaccines, a technology for which Drs. Karikó and Weissman were awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine […]
Read MoreASA Monitor February 2024, Vol. 88, 10. A 68-year-old retired physician who has coronary artery disease is seen in the preoperative clinic before his scheduled coronary artery bypass graft. He asks about options for pain control, including nerve blocks and neuraxial techniques. According to a recent systematic review and meta-analysis, compared with general anesthesia, the use […]
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