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ASA Monitor March 2023, Vol. 87, 18. UpToDate® and ASA Monitor are collaborating to present select content abstracts on “What’s New in Anesthesiology.” UpToDate is an evidence-based, clinical support resource used worldwide by healthcare practitioners to make decisions at the point of care. For complete, current “What’s New” content, or to become a subscriber for full content […]
Read MoreAuthors: 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 […]
Read MoreAuthor: Deborah Greif ASA Monitor March 2023, Vol. 87, 31. As an organization dedicated to improving patient care, ASA must collaborate with partners who understand and value the profession. Fortunately, the win-win relationships we develop with Industry Partners like Medtronic are enhanced by the clinicians who work on the other side of the relationship. “As an […]
Read MoreAuthors: 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 […]
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