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SAMBA Updates Upcoming Meeting

Did You Know that there were several abstract award winners at the SAMBA annual meeting? The Committee on Scientific Papers was proud to present...

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Join SAMBA to advance ambulatory anesthesia with expert education, research, networking, and exclusive resources for anesthesiology professionals.

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Join SAMBA to advance ambulatory anesthesia with education, research, networking, guidelines, webinars, and exclusive member benefits in outpatient...

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Did You Know That Cancelling Cataract Surgery has Profound Impact? Cataract surgery is the most commonly performed surgical procedure in Medicare...

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Did you know that Continuous Glucose Monitors are a technology worth considering in ambulatory surgery? Managing perioperative glycemic control is...

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by: Kara Barnett, MD, FASA, SAMBA-F, Max Hendrix, MD, FASA, SAMBA-F, and Dawn Schell, MD, FASA, SAMBA-F In 2020, Henry Patel, M.D, a healthy...

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by: Srini Pyati, MD, MBBS, and Niraja Rajan, MD, FASA, SAMBA-F Opioids and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory analgesics, although very effective in...

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Scopolamine is a common agent used for the treatment of PONV and post-discharge nausea and vomiting (PDNV) given its long duration of activity and...

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by: Varun Gupta, MD, MA and Rafael Vazquez, MD Abstract: With the expansion of Non-Operating Room Anesthesia (NORA), there is a growing need to...

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Did You Know... that a bedside gastric ultrasound can help qualify and quantify gastric contents to assess the rick of aspiration? In current...

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by: Christopher Eppel, MD and Kelly Lebak, MD Did You Know... the ASA now strongly recommends use of quantitative train-of-four monitoring to...

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Did you know the 2023 American Society of Anesthesiologists Practice Guidelines for Monitoring and Antagonism of Neuromuscular Blockade1 were...

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