Two women in labor received intrapartum spinal anesthesia from the same anesthesiologist approximately 1 h apart. Within 15 h, both patients developed Streptococcus salivarius meningitis and one patient died. Blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from both patients and tongue swab specimens from the anesthesiologist yielded isolates of an indistinguishable S. salivarius strain.

Active involvement of anesthesiologists in perioperative management is important to ensure the patients' safety. This study aimed to investigate the state of anesthetic services in Korea by identifying anesthetic service providers. From the insurance claims data of National Health Insurance for 3 yr, the Korean state of anesthetic services was analyzed. The claims for anesthesia from the medica...

Key Papers from the Most Recent Literature Relevant to AnesthesiologistsSingle-nucleus RNA sequencing was performed in more than 116,000 cellular nuclei isolated during rapid autopsies lungs of 19 fatal cases COVID-19 and 7 control after surgical resection, develop a lung atlas comparing alterations composition, transcriptional cell states, cell-to-cell interactions. The goal this signaling is ...

Maxillofacial fractures present unique airway problem to the anesthesiologist. Patients with LeFort III fractures are at great risk of requiring emergent airway control due to midface instability and oropharyngeal airway obstruction. We present a case where difficult intubation was managed with close cooperation between the anesthesiologist and the surgeon.

One obstacle to safety in the operating room is anesthesiologist distraction -having to shift attention back and forth from the patient to vital sign monitor while performing either routine or emergency procedures. The purpose of this study was to measure the decrease in anesthesiologist distraction made possible by using a head-mounted, see-through personal display (HMD) using retinal scanning...

A male, 62 years of age, presented to the operating room for the removal of a right adrenal mass. Induction of anesthesia triggered a severe hypertensive crisis resistant to high doses of nitroprusside, nitroglycerin and labetalol. The crisis was ultimately resolved with the administration of 5 mg bolus of phentolamine. Surgery was canceled, the patient was transported to the intensive care uni...