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Happy New Year

Week in review December 26-30

Quantitative neuromuscular blockade and implementation science: How to get anesthesiologists to “Drink the Kool-Aid”

How to slay a vampire: When some ideas just won’t die part 2

CO2 is good for you!

Toddlers and Button Batteries: A Deadly Combination

ABRs: Time to standardize to a propofol technique?

Holiday week Pediatric Anesthesia Article of the Day

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Week in review December 19-24

What are you grateful for?

A new target/therapy in the treatment of Hodgkin Lymphoma

Correction: Inhaled TXA dose

Administration of Steroids in Infants during CPB: Common Practice with No Evidence.

Inhaled TXA for post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage

Inhaled TXA in pulmonary (and post-tonsillectomy) hemorrhage

Some sad news to share

Infantile and Childhood Hydrocephalus

Week in review December 12-16

Red Cell Transfusion and O2 delivery – Do the Math

Registries in Pediatric Anesthesia Research: Opportunities and Challenges

Safety of antifibrinolytics in craniofacial surgery

Week in review December 5-10

Gratitude

Reader response and more

Becoming a leader in anesthesiology: challenges women face

Predicting perioperative risk to pediatric patients

SPPM Global Virtual Conference: A Continuum of Acute and Chronic Pain, Part 2

SPPM Global Virtual Conference: A Continuum of Acute and Chronic Pain, Part 1

Week in review November 28-December 2

Long term outcome following NEC

How to slay a vampire: When some ideas just won’t die part 2

When to transfuse?

Novel Treatment ideas for hemorrhagic shock: What the future holds

Week in review November 21-23

Happy Thanksgiving

Reader response

I’m one of those consultants who recommend hypoxia (sometimes)

Week in review November 14-19

Postoperative respiratory complications following neuromuscular blockade: Does the reversal agent matter?

Wildfire smoke and adverse respiratory perioperative events

Rescue Rx for PONV

How to slay a vampire: When some ideas just won’t die

Week in review November 7-11

Trust but verify

Reader response

Sedation vs General Anesthesia for difficult pediatric airway management

Epinephrine Dosing for Teenagers: Use PediCrisis!

Week in review Oct 31-November 5

The Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine (SPPM) presents Global virtual conference “A continuum or Acute and Chronic Pain”

Methadone vs IVPCA

The effects of intraoperative hypotension on neurodevelopment: Much ado about nothing?

Hypotension and the lower limit of cerebral autoregulation

How low is low?

Week in review October 24-28

Reader response

Remembering the Classics: Support For The Use Of Fresh Whole Blood in Young Children Undergoing Complex Open Heart Surgery

Faye Evans MD awarded the Nicholas M. Greene Award for Outstanding Humanitarian Contribution at the 2022 Annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists

SPPM Global virtual conference:

Week in review October 17-21

SPA meeting October 21 and a PS from Dr. G on UnitedHealth Care Group

Adrian Bosenberg, to be awarded SPA’s Myron Yaster Lifetime Achievement Award

Charlie or King Charles: Do Titles Matter?

Palliative care programs

Influenza Vaccination in Perioperative Settings: A Teachable Moment

CPR and Ventilation Rate: “What does a yellow light mean?”

Patient Blood Management: The role of tranexamic acid (TXA)

N V T S: Parental presence during routine intraoperative care

Week in review October 3-7

Time to register and meet the new SPA Board of Directors

Open notes, transparency, and the Cures Act

In memoriam: Dr. Adam Birek (1947-2022)

Reader Response

The Cures Act and transparency in medicine

Week in review September 26-October 1

Perioperative transfusion therapy

A febrile, A typical, A noxia and now A ponvie (Aprepitant)

Clinical Decision-Making and Debiasing Strategies

Shanna Tova: Happy New Year

Week in review Sept 19-23

Regional anesthesia in pediatric orthopedic surgery

Hot off the presses: Litman's Basics of Pediatric Anesthesia, 3rd Edition

Supraglottic airways and neonatal resuscitation

Toddlers and Button Batteries: A Deadly Combination

Week in review September 12-16

Call to action by SPA's Sustainability Special Interest Group

Reader Response

Cognitive Errors in Anesthesiology

On “Maintenance Fluids” under Anesthesia: Isotonic or Bust!

Week in review September 5-9

Perioperative respiratory adverse events in T&A patients: Does the premed make a difference?

In memoriam: Dr. Frederic A. ‘Fritz’ Berry (1935-2022)

IV compatability of analgesics

Safety of lower limb extremity nerve blocks

Learning How to Take Care of Life After Death: A letter to the editor in the Wall Street Journal

Week in review August 29-September 3

The color of care

Error traps in acute pediatric pain management. Part 2

Error traps in acute pediatric pain management: Part 1

Don't forget to vote SPA Board of Directors

Reader response

Novel Treatment ideas for hemorrhagic shock: What the future holds

Week in review August 22-26

EEG part 4

Remembering the Classics: Pediatric Perioperative Cardiac Arrest-the POCA Data

“Everything changed when I was 8 and went through a living nightmare”

Anesthesiologist Staffing Ratios

Week in review August 14-19

Spina Bifida part 2

Spina Bifida Part 1

EEG part 3

Reader Response

Week in review August 8-12

Suicide Risk Screening in the Emergency Department: Should we be doing this in PreOP?

EEG part 2

Remembering the classics: Awake intubation of the preterm neonate

Time to Get on Board the Percutaneous Train; The Future is Going to Be Increasingly Non-Surgical

Week in review August 1-5

Pediatric airway management

EEG part 1

Physician Coaching and Burn-out, part 3

Pain in the PICU: Does it affect quality of life after discharge?

Week in review July 25-29

Reader response

In memoriam: Dr. Estela Melman

Burnout part 2

Liberating the Critically-ill Child: Pain, Sedation, Delirium and more

No Pain No Gain or More Pain Less Gain?

Week in review July18-22

Benchmarking Quality

Physician burn out part 1

Just Say No to NO (Nitric Oxide) Delivered in the Cardiopulmonary Bypass Oxygenator During Cardiac Surgery in Young Children

CO2 is good for you!

Week in review July 11-15

Remembering the classics: Thoracic epidural anesthesia via the caudal route in infants

Happy 14th of July : Bastille Day

ERAS protocols and pediatric colorectal surgery

Gut microbiome a new frontier

Reader response

Week in review July 4-8

Announcing the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia's Pedi Crisis v 2 app update

ERAS and pediatric colorectal surgery

Reader response

“I don’t need no stinkin’ quantitative neuromuscular blockade monitor”…you probably do

Naloxone again

Happy 4th of July

Week in Review June 27-July 1

Houston we have a problem: Diversity, equity, and inclusion in Anesthesiology Part 2

Houston we have a problem: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Anesthesiology: Part 1

Reader Response: How low is low in the neonate? Greening the OR (low flow anesthesia), more on assault weapon ban

The Never-Ending Quest To Miminize Postbypass Bleeding While Minimizing Donor Exposure

Week in review June 20-24

MH

2021 John Severinghaus Lecture

MAC revisited

The week in review June 13-17

Low -Flow Anesthesia

Reader response

Difficult IV access

Snakes, Planes, and Drug Errors

Words Matter: Substance Use Disorder and Preferred Terminology

Week in review June 6-10

Reader responses

Low-Flow Anesthesia

Quantitative neuromuscular blockade and implementation science: How to get anesthesiologists to “Drink the Kool-Aid”

Antifibrinolytics to reduce bleeding after pediatric cardiac surgery

How low is low?

Week in review May 30-June 3

Call your congressman/congresswoman and your senators NOW: Enough is enough…Ban assault rifles!

Textbooks reader responses

Pediatric anesthesia risk in Africa: Defining the problem, exploring solutions

Reader response

Week in review May 23-27

Society for Pediatric Statement on Gun Violence

Pseudocholinesterase deficiency and SIDS

Lack of Women on Anesthesiology Editorial Boards: Value Lost

Reader response

The digital twin

Week in review May 16-20

A review of the 10th Edition of Smith’s Anesthesia for Infants and Children

Epidurals? We Don’t Need No Stinkin' Epidurals: Convincing the NICU why they do.

Care of transgender youth: culture war topic or focus for compassionate care?

Week in review May 9-13

Reader Response

Tracheal extubation: Landing the plane is as important as takeoff

Anesthesia and neurotoxicity: The problems with animal models and why you should be skeptical

Pain management, Opioids Prescriptions and Race

Week in review: May 2-7

Ron Litman memorial lecture: Last chance to view

Atelectasis and lung recruitment during thoracic CT scanning

Seeking Job Security? Consider A Career In Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology!

Guidelines, Guidelines everywhere…Is optimal cardiac arrest care determined by continent? Part 2

Guidelines, Guidelines everywhere…Is optimal cardiac arrest care determined by continent? Part one

Week in review April 25-29

2022 Master in Law Lecture: Honoring Ron Litman: The Opioid crisis

Cryoablation for the Nuss procedure: Have we jumped the gun?

Vivien Thomas, Alfred Blalock, Helen Taussig, Austin Lamont, and Merel Harmel: Lessons from History

Week in review April 18-22

First Annual Ron Litman Mentoring Awardees

Reader Response

Providing patient care in Ukraine today: Anesthesia under fire

Bilateral erector spinae catheters as a component of a multimodal analgesic protocol for the Nuss procedure – another possible solution to a painful conundrum

ABRs: Time to standardize to a propofol technique?

Week in review April 11-15

Anesthesia and the developing brain

Sugammadex

How to download PAAD articles and an update

Traumatic brain injury and ketamine: Another bubbe meisa?

Reader Responses

Week(s) in review March 28-April 8

Special lecture in memory of Ron Litman

A classic revisited: Speed of Inhalational Induction of Anesthesia: Does Intracardiac Shunting Play A Role?

Anti-transgender health policies

Cricoid pressure during the rapid sequence intubation: Another “bubbameisa”?

In memoriam: Dr. Kelly Ann Machovec

Seizures In Neonates With Cardiopulmonary Disease: The Case For Continous EEG Monitoring And Further Studies

Reminder: Special lecture honoring the late Ron Litman

Remembering the Classics: The Art of Low Flow Anesthesia

A Covid report from the front lines

Pediatric Research: What's acceptable risk?

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy and neonatal pain

Week in review March 14-18

Reader Response

Rigid bronchoscopy: Tips and Tricks

Liberating the Critically-ill Child: Pain, Sedation, Delirium and more

The Cures Act

Week in review March 7-11

Good faith vs criminal activity

Cefazolin and Penicillin allergy

Ventilation management in the PICU

Week in review Feb 28-March 4

Marina Kalabina MD pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist killed in Ukraine

Reader responses

One lung ventilation

Cystic Fibrosis an update for the Pediatric Anesthesiologist

Week in review Feb 21-25

Dissecting Racial Outcome Disparities In Children With CHD Using Big Data

Dr. Bernard Lown: Making the World a Better Place

All that wheezes is not asthma…except it often is

Week in review Feb 14-18

Special lecture in memory of Ron Litman

Error Traps in Airway Management

Gender compensation disparity in anesthesiology part 3

Mary Ellen McCann is a HERO

Covid and the Pediatric Anesthesiologist

Week in Review Feb 7-11

Local anesthetic systemic toxicity (LAST) in children

Every rose has its thorns

A non-invasive respiratory volume monitor

Anesthetic management of adults with Epidermolysis bullosa

Week in review Jan 31-Feb 4

Reader responses

Gender compensation disparity in anesthesiology part 2

Gender compensation disparity in anesthesiology

Language Matters: Avoiding Placebo’s Evil Twin, Nocebo

Week in review January 24-28

January 27, 1945

Error Traps in Pediatric Regional Anesthesia

Epidermolysis Bullosa: Experience at a Pediatric Tertiary Referral Center

In memoriam: Lisa Wise-Faberowski, MD, MS

Remembering the classics: NPO guidelines

Week in review January 17-22

Reader Responses

Remembering the classics: Does the newborn require anesthesia for surgery?

Covid and Pain

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY AFTER NEONATAL CARDIAC SURGERY: NEED TO IDENTIFY A CLINICALLY MEANINGFUL RENAL INJURY PHENOTYPE

Reader's responses

Week in review January 10-15

Mucositis

Anesthetic management of children with anterior mediastinal masses

Left over, unconsumed prescription opioids

Week in Review (January 3-7)

Prescription Opioid Ecosystem

Pediatric preoperative fasting guidelines

Covid again (still)