INTRODUCTION The objective of this study was to identify factors that have a positive or negative influence on resuscitation team performance during emergencies in the operating room (OR) and post-operative recovery unit (PAR) at a major Canadian teaching hospital. This information was then used to implement a team training program for code blue emergencies. METHODS In 2009/10, all OR and PAR...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Anesthesiologists are the majority in impaired-physician programs that assist physicians who abuse psychoactive substances. The aim of this paper is to show a descriptive study about the clinical and sociodemographic profile of a sample of chemically dependent anesthesiologists treated in a reference program. In addition, the objective is to cite the psychiatric comorb...

I N this issue of ANESTHESIOLOGY, Ueda et al. report two cases in which point-of-care ultrasonography led to the rapid intraoperative diagnosis of pneumothorax. In recent years there has been a dramatic increase in the utilization of ultrasound for real-time guidance of clinical decision-making and procedures. A growing body of evidence demonstrates the benefits of this change in practice. The ...

The information regarding the risk of anesthesia-related death in veterinary medicine is scarce, and little known about mortality specific anesthetics. study conducted during 2019 at University Sarajevo, Veterinary faculty, aimed to estimate intermittent injectable ketamine-xylazine anesthesia dogs investigate potential relationship between rate anesthesiologists’ experience. Anesthetic records...

Context and Objective: Patients exposure to Anesthesiologist occure preoperatively and intraoperatively. This is the only opportunity to anesthesiologist to provide the correct information about anesthesia procedures and their work.The aim of this study is to evaluate patients view about anesthesiologist before anesthesia and to identify whether the anesthetic care would change such perceptions...

In recent years, there has been an increased emphasis on the role of anesthesiologists as perioperative physicians. However, a new group of physicians called hospitalists has emerged and established a role as perioperative physicians. Most hospitalists have specialized in internal medicine and its subspecialties. We reviewed American medical literature over the last 13 years on the roles of ane...

BACKGROUND New resuscitation guidelines that were proposed by the European Resuscitation Council in 2010 have introduced a new method of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) by chest compressions only for untrained individuals. OBJECTIVES We conducted this study to evaluate differences in attitudes towards CPR among medical doctors, surgeons and anesthesiologists in Osijek University Hospital....

BACKGROUND: In Mexico, guidelines for fasting periods, or any audits on this topic are unavailable, and therefore the attitudes of anesthesiologists for recommending preoperative fasting periods are unknown. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The study was a cross-sectional survey of anesthesiologists subscribed to the Annual Updated Course, organized by the Sociedad Mexicana de Anestesiologia in 2000. The ...

Aim The American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status (ASA-PS) classification system is used worldwide and has also been incorporated into various prediction rules. However, concerns have been raised regarding inter-rater agreement in various surgical fields. Although emergency gastrointestinal surgery is relatively common and associated with high postoperative mortality, a reliability ...

A 1992 General Accounting Office (GAO) study on costs of anesthesia found that anesthetics administered by anesthesia care teams (ACTs) were more costly than those administered by Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) or anesthesiologists practicing alone. In 1994, Medicare implemented a single payment system in response to the GAO report and recommendations by the Physician Payment R...