Sleep Medicine
Key Points ▪ Sleep is a dynamic neuronal and behavioral state that can be characterized using specific electroencephalographic, electrophysiologic, and behavioral findings. ▪ Characteristics of sleep can be quantified using…
Consciousness, Memory, and Anesthesia
Key Points ▪ Mechanisms of consciousness and memory, and their interruption by general anesthetics, are important scientific problems that have clinical relevance for the practice of anesthesiology. ▪ Consciousness is…
Ethical Aspects of Anesthesia Care
Key Points ▪ Deontologic (“rules-based”) ethical theory and utilitarian (outcome-based) theory clash in clinical scenarios in which the interests of individual patients are pitted against the interests of larger populations….
Informatics in Perioperative Medicine
Key Points ▪ Individual computers are connected via networks to share information across many users. ▪ Information security is about ensuring that the correct information is available only to the…
Quality Improvement in Anesthesia Practice and Patient Safety
Key Points ▪ Quality needs to be an integral characteristic of the system in which care is delivered. Improving the quality of care often requires reorganization of the way we…
Anesthesia and Analgesia in the Global Context
Abstract: More than 5 of the world’s 7 billion people lack access to safe anesthesia and surgical services. Surgical disease accounts for 30% of global disease burden, yet less than…
Perioperative Medicine
Key Points ▪ The practice of anesthesiology continues to evolve with health care for patients undergoing new and, in many cases, more complicated procedures in the operating room as well…
The Scope of Modern Anesthetic Practice
Key Points ▪ The scope of modern anesthesia practice includes preoperative evaluation and preparation; intraprocedural care; postoperative care including acute pain management; critical care, resuscitation, and retrieval; chronic pain management;…
Ultrasound-Guided Injection Technique for Hallux Valgus Deformity
Ultrasound-Guided Injection Technique for Hallux Valgus Deformity CLINICAL PERSPECTIVES Bunion, which is also known as the hallux valgus, refers to a constellation of symptoms including soft tissue swelling over the…
Ultrasound-Guided Injection Technique for Posterior Tibialis Tendonitis
Ultrasound-Guided Injection Technique for Posterior Tibialis Tendonitis CLINICAL PERSPECTIVES Posterior tibialis tendonitis is a clinical syndrome characterized by sharp, constant, and severe inner ankle pain. This painful condition is often…
