F Wickham Kraemer,John B Rose
F Wickham Kraemer
The accurate assessment and effective treatment of acute pain in children in the hospital setting is a high priority. During the past 2 to 3 decades, pediatric pain management has gained tremendous knowledge with respect to the understandin...
Jimmy W Huh,Ramesh Raghupathi
Jimmy W Huh
Emerging evidence suggests unique age-dependent responses following pediatric traumatic brain injury. The anesthesiologist plays a pivotal role in the acute treatment of the head-injured pediatric patient. This review provides important upd...
Arjunan Ganesh,Harshad G Gurnaney
Arjunan Ganesh
There is an increasing trend in the use of peripheral nerve blockade for postoperative analgesia in children, and the use of ultrasound guidance to perform peripheral nerve blocks is gaining popularity. A thorough knowledge of anatomy will ...
John Fiadjoe,Paul Stricker
John Fiadjoe
The anesthesiologist confronting the difficult pediatric airway is presented with a unique set of challenges. Adult difficult airway management techniques, such as awake or invasive approaches to airway management, often cannot be applied t...
Arjunan Ganesh,Ronald Litman
Arjunan Ganesh
Lee A Fleisher
Lee A Fleisher
Wendy L Gross,Barbara Gold
Wendy L Gross
Whether we like it or not, medicine is big business. The argument is sometimes made that standard management strategies from the business world do not apply to medicine because the economics and practice of medicine are unique--driven by sc...
The evolution of the anesthesiologist: novel perioperative roles and beyond [0.03%]
麻醉医师的角色演变：新型围手术期角色及未来发展之路
Richard Teplick,Myer Rosenthal
Richard Teplick
Delivery of the spectrum of anesthesia from sedation to general anesthesia for patients undergoing procedures outside of the operating room (OR) poses several problems not encountered in the OR. These include limited time to assess the pati...
Samuel M Galvagno,Bhavani-Shankar Kodali
Samuel M Galvagno
There is no need to reinvent the wheel to determine the need for vigilant monitoring in outside of the operating room (OOR) settings. Anesthesiologists have evolved a robust system of monitoring standards based on decades of experience in o...
Allan Frankel
Allan Frankel
The safety of anesthesia delivered in the operating room is enhanced by the standardization and reliability built into that environment, which has prescriptive and detailed protocols for almost every procedure performed. Experienced anesthe...