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Author: Mary Dale Peterson, MD, MSHCA, FACHE, FASA ASA Monitor November 2023, Vol. 87, 32. I know I’m preaching to the choir when I say we all are feeling the effects of workforce challenges. This includes witnessing or even experiencing health care professional burnout, staff shortages, a backlog of elective surgeries and procedures, reduced OR capacity, […]
Read MoreASA Monitor November 2023, Vol. 87, 14. Case presentation: A 10-year-old boy with a complex past medical history notable for neonatal stroke resulting in cortical blindness, tracheoesophageal fistula repaired in infancy, and ASD/VSD repair requiring subsequent pacemaker placement and pacemaker dependence presented for iliac bone graft for correction of an alveolar maxillary cleft defect. During the […]
Read MoreASA Monitor November 2023, Vol. 87, 13. The Labor and Delivery Quality and Safety Committee at your institution has been evaluating strategies to decrease their higher-than-desired rate of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). They have initiated the administration of prophylactic intramuscular (IM) methylergonovine in women undergoing cesarean delivery while in labor, provided they have no contraindication to the […]
Read MoreAuthors: Dibash Kumar Das, PhD; Steven Shafer, MD, FASA ASA Monitor November 2023, Vol. 87, 1–5. Anesthesiologists are often at the forefront of new challenges in patient care. Anesthesiologists will be leaders in adapting health care delivery and hospital infrastructure to the escalating impacts of climate change. Climate change has led to more frequent and severe extreme […]
Read MoreAuthors: Ha-Jung Kim, M.D., Ph.D. et al Anesthesiology November 2023, Vol. 139, 591–601. Background Single-shot suprascapular nerve block and superior trunk block have been reported to provide a noninferior analgesic effect after shoulder surgery with a lesser incidence of hemidiaphragmatic paresis compared with interscalene brachial plexus block. This study hypothesized that continuous suprascapular nerve block provides […]
Read MoreAuthors: Lisa Q. Rong, M.D. et al Anesthesiology November 2023, Vol. 139, 602–613. Background Detailed understanding of the association between intraoperative left atrial and left ventricular diastolic function and postoperative atrial fibrillation is lacking. In this post hoc analysis of the Posterior Left Pericardiotomy for the Prevention of Atrial Fibrillation after Cardiac Surgery (PALACS) trial, we aimed to […]
Read MoreRole of the Microbiome in the Persistence of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Author: Lara Wiley Crock, MD, PhD, MSCI International Anesthesia Research Society A car accident during medical school profoundly affected Dr. Lara Wiley Crock, MD, PhD, MSCI’s life. Fortunate to recover, she became more aware of the many patients in the clinical settings […]
Read MoreAuthors: Evans, Faye M. MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia 137(5):p 922-928, November Capnography is an essential tool used in the monitoring of patients during anesthesia and in critical care which, while required in most high-income countries, is unavailable in many low- and middle-income countries. Launched in 2020, the Smile Train-Lifebox Capnography Project aimed to find […]
Read MoreAuthor: Andrew Cass Becker’s Hospital Review Federal officials issued proposed changes to the No Surprises Act’s independent dispute resolution process in a news release. They said those changes, if finalized, will improve communication between payers providers and certified IDR entities, create a more efficient dispute resolution process and change the administrative fee structure to improve accessibility. […]
Read MoreAuthor: Matthew Zapf, MD ASA Monitor November 2023, Vol. 87, 27–28. Figure: Example of a Threshold Plot for an AI Binary Classification Model The scores of various test characteristics are shown on the y-axis as a function of discrimination threshold (x-axis). Of note, recall is also known as sensitivity, and precision is also known as the […]
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