CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
CIPEPOFOL – A “NEW PROPOFOL” FROM CHINA
The discovery of cipepofol is important for at least one reason. Years in the future, when cipepofol is available as a generic drug and…
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CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
EMERGENCY MANUALS IN THE OPERATING ROOM: A STANDARD OF CARE?
A cognitive aid is defined a “structured pieces of information designed to enhance cognition and adherence to medical best practices.” The Stanford Emergency Manual is a…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
WHO WILL BE PROVIDING ANESTHESIA CARE 10 YEARS FROM NOW?
If the current trend of inadequate numbers of anesthesia clinicians in the United States is not reversed, this insufficient supply of will be a…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION IN PRIVATE PRACTICE ANESTHESIA
In 2024 most academic medical centers utilize a preoperative anesthesia evaluation clinic to prepare and screen patients prior to surgery, but do community and…
Creative Writing in Anesthesia
WRITING MEDICAL FICTION
“Write what you know” is perhaps the most repeated advice given to prospective authors. Physicians know medicine and are uniquely qualified to write medical…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
HIGH FLOW NASAL OXYGEN: AN ANESTHESIA GAME-CHANGER
At the 2023 American Society of Anesthesiologists meeting in San Francisco, I walked by a booth advertising High Flow Nasal Oxygen. The product was…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
THE TOP 10 ANESTHESIA JOURNALS
This column will help you find the top 10 anesthesia journals. Prior to the internet, hard copies of medical journals were bound into volumes…
ANESTHESIA PATIENT QUESTIONS BLOG
MY ANESTHESIOLOGIST ADMINISTERED FENTANYL TO ME. IS THAT OK?
America is in the midst of a fentanyl crisis. There were 71,238 fentanyl overdose deaths in the United States in 2021. The Drug Enforcement…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
INCREASED DOLLAR COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH DIFFICULT INTUBATION
The safe management of a difficult airway is the most important single skill for an anesthesiologist. Every critically ill patient is managed by the…
CLINICAL CASES FOR ANESTHESIA PROFESSIONALS
THE ANESTHESIA CONTROL TOWER: BIG BROTHER OR FRIEND?
Anesthesiologists at the Barnes Jewish Hospital at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri are studying a novel system they call the Anesthesia Control Tower…
ANESTHESIA PATIENT QUESTIONS BLOG
ANESTHESIOLOGISTS COVERING THREE OR FOUR OPERATING ROOMS AT ONCE CAN INCREASE RISKS
JAMA Surgery published the study “Association of Anesthesiologist Staffing Ratio With Surgical Patient Morbidity and Mortality” on July 22, 2022. This was a landmark paper on the topic…
THE TOP 20 DOCTORS IN THE HISTORY OF ANESTHESIA
How did our specialty advance from prescribing patients two shots of whiskey to administering safe modern anesthesia? In chronologic order, my choices for the…