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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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

Did you know that cerebral oximetry has been studied for shoulder surgery in the beach chair position? Cerebral oximeters use near-infrared...

Did you know that Non-Invasive Cardiac Output Monitors are a potential game-changer for ambulatory surgery? As the acuity of patients seen in...

Did you know that transcutaneous carbon dioxide monitoring exists? Transcutaneous carbon dioxide (CO2) monitoring has a potential role in...