Sitemap - 2023 - Pediatric Anesthesia Article of the Day
Respiratory adverse events after LMA removal: Does the anesthetic make a difference? YES!!
Preoperative fasting guidelines…again
Nitrous oxide-not a laughing matter
Substance Use screening preoperatively
Sugammadex reversal of neuromuscular blockade requires quantitative monitoring
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Age dependent changes in EEG in infants under spinal anesthesia
It’s déjà vu all over again or maybe not!
Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship (mis)MATCH
Opioid prescription rates in adolescents following surgery
The Never-Ending Quest To Improve Neurodevelopmental Outcomes After Neonatal Cardiac Surgery
Respiratory adverse events after LMA removal: Does the anesthetic make a difference? YES!!
Procedural and Surgical Safety Checklists: Video in Clinical Anesthesia
Error Traps in the Perioperative Care of Patients with Chronic Pain
The canary in the coal mine: Duration of training is killing our profession
Remembering the classics: Pediatric Sedation Research Consortium
CF is no longer Cystic Fibrosis but rather Cure Found!
Reclaiming the Etiquette of Extubation or the landing is as important as takeoff
To bougie or not to bougie as a first attempt intubation – and what is a bougie anyhow?!
Remembering the classics: URI and laryngospasm
Reader response and celebrating the distinguished career of Elliot Krane, MD
Preoperative fasting guidelines…again
Error traps in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis surgery: Part two
Error traps in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis surgery: Part one
Operating Room Efficiency Is A Team Sport
Video, Oxygen, Paralysis, and LMAs: Airway Management Highlights from the SPA Annual Meeting
Anesthesia for the child with a rare disease
A review of therapeutic hypothermia in traumatic brain injury
Nitrous oxide-not a laughing matter
Capnography for all: A call to action
Glycemic control in neonates with Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy: A Goldilocks moment
Neuromuscular blockade and reversal with sugammadex in infants: “Recurarization” risk factors
Pictures from SPA October 2023
Vigilance in the MRI environment
Crystallization of Local Anesthetics when mixed with adjuvants
In memorium: Dr. Alvin ‘Al’ Hackel
The loss of pediatric beds and expertise in community hospitals
Women of Impact in Anesthesiology 2023 update
Women in Medicine Month and other SPA/ASA news
Intraoperative fluid management in scoliosis
Dental sedation and anesthesia
SPA social event for students and trainees
Challenges of anesthetic monitoring in low and middle income countries
What we lose when we loosen dress codes
Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation: Our role in the operating room
Substance Use screening preoperatively
Substance abuse and anesthesia
Author response on Opioid Free Anesthesia and the Law of Unintended Consequences
The law of unintended consequences
ACGME Accreditation for Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology Fellowships: A Step Forward?
Anesthesia in the Korean war Part two
David J. Steward MB, BS, FRCPC
Anesthesia in the Korean war Part one
Opioid prescribing practice in 3d molar extractions
NORA Redux: Consensus recommendations for safe conduct from the APSF
What is the most effective post-extubation noninvasive respiratory support modality in children?
Opioid free anesthesia: One center’s experience
Preop anesthetic evaluation: Live or Zoom?
Racial Disparities in Compensation
Electroencephalogram-Guided Anesthesia Care in Children
Peripheral Sodium Channel: the holy grail?
Gabapentinoids in Children: There is no magic bullet
Sugammadex reversal of neuromuscular blockade requires quantitative monitoring
Morphine v Hydromorphone drug conversion error
Give me LIBERTY, or give me Death: ICU Liberation in Pediatric Critical Care
Error traps in pediatric patient blood management in the perioperative period
Week in review July 24-28, 2023
Management of inguinal hernias in children
Physician Suicide: We can’t fix a problem we don’t talk about
Sugammadex Vial Wastage: Implications for the Cost of Anesthesia Care in Children
Are You Green Enough? Embracing Sustainability in Anesthesia
Week in review July 17-21, 2023
Week in review July 10-14, 2023
Happy 14th of July : Bastille Day
Sustainability and Reporcessing Single Use OR Items
Anesthesia OR efficiency: Does pediatric anesthesia fellowship training make a difference?
Remembering the Classics: The “leak” test
Week in review June 26-30, 2023
Calling for Help – A sign of STRENGTH, not weakness!
The “Leak test” Prior to Extubation: Another “bubbameisa” (old wives’ tale)?
More on Project SPRUCE (Saving our Planet by RedUcing Carbon Emissions)
Pretreatment with beta agonists in ENT surgery
Week in review June 19-23, 2023
Alpha-1-acid glycoprotein and local anesthetics in the neonate
Through the glass, darkly: variability in GA use for MRI by race
Ketorolac use in neonates and young infants: Lots of anecdotes and opinions not a lot of data
Week in review June 12-16, 2023
Congenital diaphragmatic hernia, ECMO and continuous EEG monitoring
Peripheral Nerve Blocks and Acute Compartment Syndrome: What to do?
On Carbon Offsets: Treat the World Like an Apneic Baby – Give it a Breath!
Remembering the classics: Should children drink before discharge from day surgery?
A penny saved is a penny earned
Attendance among medical students reaches a low point: How will they become “attending” physicians?
Remembering the classics: Should children drink before discharge from day surgery?
Perioperative management of patients with sickle cell disease
Week in review May 29-June 3, 2023
Prehospital blood transfusion in pediatric trauma
OK We Know There is an Opioid Crisis But What Can We Do About It?
Week in review May 22-26, 2023
Non-operating room anesthesia (NORA)
Week in review May 15-19, 2023
Difficult or impossible face mask ventilation
Remember the Classics-Why? Cerebral Embolization From Flushing a Radial Artery Catheter
Cannabinoids as Alternatives to Opioids in Pain Management Part 2:
Cannabinoids as Alternatives to Opioids in Pain Management
Remembering the Classics: “TripTik” to the Heart
Does the condition of middle ear fluid at the time of PE tubes make a difference in pain management?
More Pictures from SPA, SPPM, and CCAS
Gastric ultrasound and preoperative clear liquid fasting
Videolaryngoscopy v Standard Direct Laryngoscopy
Is there an optimal dose of Ephedrine for the treatment of pediatric intraoperative hypotension?
More Pictures from SPA, SPPM, and CCAS
Blood Pressure in Neonates: What is the Target?
More Pictures from SPA, SPPM, and CCAS
Antibiotic prophylaxis and surgical site infection
More Pictures from SPA, SPPM, and CCAS
Remembering the classics : The Art of Extubation
More Pictures from SPA, SPPM, CCAS
Week in Review: Remembering Dr. Ron Litman
Today is Earth Day: A repost of Ditching Desflurane for the good of Planetary Health
Ron Litman’s contributions to mentorship and career development through grit and perseverance.
More pictures from SPA, SPPM, and CCAS 2023
Ron Liftman Endowed Mentorship Award-Annual update
More Pictures from SPA, SPPM, and CCAS
Remembering the classics: European consensus on IV fluids
The Term Provider – more than meets the eye?
Navil Sethna MBchB, 2023 Robert M. Smith Award Winner
The Never Ending Quest To Achieve Hemostasis: At What Cost?
Artificial Intelligence and live interpretation of Ultrasound images
Why is Fentanyl Different than other Mu agonist opioids?
More on Chronic Post-Surgical Pain
Rethinking and reimagining the magic of the pediatric anesthesiology fellowship experience: Part 3
Rethinking and reimagining the magic of the pediatric anesthesiology fellowship experience: Part 2
Rethinking and reimagining the magic of the pediatric anesthesiology fellowship experience
Ditching Desflurane for the good of Planetary Health
Week in review February 27-March 3, 2023
Navil Sethna MBchB, 2023 Robert M. Smith Award Winner
Finding a New Home: Approaching the Perioperative Care of Refugee Children
Week in review Feb 20-24, 2023
Achieving equity for women in anesthesiology
Adults are not giant neonates: Cardiac arrest in ADULT patients admitted to CHILDREN'S hospitals
Fentanyl Drives Startling Increases in Adolescent Overdose Deaths
Ultrasound guided dorsal penile vs pudendal nerve blocks for circumcision
Hypotension on sevoflurane induction in Down syndrome patients
Hypothermia in pediatric out of hospital cardiac arrest: a reanalysis
Back to the future: Timing of tracheostomy
Week in review January 30-Feb 4, 2023
Pediatric Obesity Addendum and reader response
A (very) modular update of the ASA Fasting Guidelines
Remembering the Classics: Cyanosis-Do You Think the Blood Looks Dark?
EEG alpha power and anesthesia induction in infants
Week in review: January 23-27, 2023
Caring for transgender patients
Reducing intraoperative medication errors
Error traps in liver transplantation
Ice sterile slush reduces the incidence of oculocephalic reflex during pediatric strabismus surgery
Sterile techniques during pediatric regional anesthesia
Gender gap in anesthesiology leadership
Pediatric anesthesiology fellows: an endangered species?
Influenza vaccination in the perioperative period: A teachable moment