Background: The 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic has had a significant impact on anesthesiology practice globally. Its high infectivity and severity of onset led to numerous examples healthcare systems being overwhelmed, especially at its incipience. Drawing experiences from previous pandemics, we anticipated that our Anesthesiology Department would be faced with unique challenges due proximity ...

a a e o d d s p v h p c s c t r c r p n s t h c t t n l ( oi:10.1016/j.joms.2010.10.004 during awake fiberoptic orotracheal intubation. Anesthesiology 102:910, 2005 . Williams W, Jiang Y: Management of difficult airway with direct ventilation through nasal airway without facemask. J Oral Maxillofac Surg 67:2541, 2009 . Kambic V, Radsel Z: Intubation lesions of the larynx. Br J Anaesth 50:587, 1...

Wolfgang Korte1; Marco Cattaneo2; Pierre-Guy Chassot3; Sabine Eichinger4; Christian von Heymann5; Niklaus Hofmann6; Hans Rickli7; Michael Spannagl8; Bernhard Ziegler9; Freek Verheugt10; Kurt Huber11 1Center for Laboratory Medicine, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, Switzerland; 2Medicina 3, Ospedale San Paolo, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy...

To address debates over recommended perioperative fluid management, Nisanevich et al. designed a randomized prospective study to compare liberal versus restricted fluid administration during intraabdominal surgery. The team enrolled 152 patients scheduled to undergo intraabdominal surgery, and randomly assigned half of them (n 75) to receive liberal amounts of lactated Ringer’s solution (bolus ...

in this issue1 underlines the necessity of instituting hyperbaric oxygen treatment for suspected iatrogenic arterial gas embolism even if a delay of days has occurred. The commonest reasons for delay are a failure to consider the diagnosis and treatment; concern related to the critical status of the patient; and a mistaken belief that the patient is not fit for transportation or treatment in a ...

Manuscript Number: Full Title: Basic concepts in the use of thoracic and lung ultrasound Article Type: Review Article Corresponding Author: Eric Piette, MD, FRCPC Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal Montréal, Québec CANADA Corresponding Author Secondary Information: Corresponding Author's Institution: Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal Corresponding Author's Secondary Institution: First Author: ...

In the 1950s and 60s digital computers, in the form of mainframe systems, first made their way out of government laboratories and into the corporate world. They soon found their way into hospitals, generally as accounting tools. Over time, computer technology was offered as a solution to many real and perceived problems in the hospital, including medical record keeping, patient data analysis, a...

In May, 1956 a conference was held at the New York Academy of Sciences on the subject "Anesthesia and Related Problems." The results of this conference are now presented in a series of 15 papers. On the whole these papers are characterized by an academic and objective approach to many of the clinical problems relating to anesthesia but because of their fundamental nature some of them can also b...

1233 December 2013 I DO not believe in fate, but some things just make you wonder. In 1875, a senior resident completing his training in surgery at the University of Michigan presented his required senior thesis entitled: “Anaesthetics and their Use.” This 46-page neatly handwritten manuscript described the state-of-theart of anesthesiology in impressive detail. What was surprising to me is tha...