Recent advances in EP enabled significant improvement in the care for cardiac patient. Implantation of PMs or ICDs, CRT, and RFA of tachyarrhythmias represent EP procedures that significantly improve quality of life and outcome in selected patient populations. The complexity of the procedure and the off-site EP laboratory environment create a new, challenging scenario for the anesthesiologist. ...

Major burn injury remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in pediatric patients. With advances in burn care and with the development of experienced multi-disciplinary teams at regionalized burn centers, many children are surviving severe burn injury. As members of the multi-disciplinary care team, anesthesia providers are called upon to care for these critically ill children. The...

CONTEXT High compliance endotracheal tubes cuffs are used to prevent gas leak and also pulmonary aspiration in mechanically ventilated patients. However, the use of the usual cuff inflation volumes may cause tracheal damage. OBJECTIVE We tested the hypothesis that endotracheal tube cuff pressures are routinely high (above 40 cmH2O) in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) or Intensive Care Uni...

Objective: During the pandemic, pregnant women were more likely to develop severe illness, necessitating critical care, and require mechanical ventilation. Birth of can be necessary for rapid decline in mother's clinical situation or obstetric indication. This study aimed investigate outcomes who gave birth during coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) isolation period with regard mode type anesth...

Anesthesia began in 1846, when an American dentist administered diethyl ether to a patient undergoing neck surgery [1]. Initially, anesthesia practice was limited to rendering patients unconscious and without pain or movement during surgery. Over the course of the next century, new knowledge, technology, and drugs enabled anesthesiologists to manage physiologic derangements caused by anesthetic...

1 Head, Department of Anesthesia, Wolfson Medical Center, Holon, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology Tel Aviv University, Israel; Outcomes Research Consortium, Cleveland OH, USA 2 Head, Department of Anesthesia, Rebecca Sief Medical Center, Zefad, Instructor of Anesthesiology, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 3 Director of the Mother and Child Anesthesia Center, Department of Anesthesiology and C...

Patient safety secured by constant vigilance remains a primary responsibility of every anesthesia professional. Although significant attention has been focused on patient falls occurring before and after surgery, a potentially catastrophic complication is when patients fall off an operating room or procedure table during anesthesia care. Because such events are (fortunately) uncommon, and becau...

PURPOSE This study determined the incidence of and identified risk factors for 48 hour (h) and 30 day (d) postoperative mortality after inpatient operations. METHODS A retrospective cohort study was conducted using Anesthesiology's Quality Indicator database as the main data source. The database was queried for data related to the surgical procedure, anesthetic care, perioperative adverse eve...

Patients with Hallervorden-Spatz disease may be confronted by invasive procedure, like gastrostomy and thalamotomy for care of the status of extreme dystonia and rigidity. This rare disorder possesses potential perioperative risks, such as difficult airway management, aspiration pneumonia, hyperpyrexia, dehydration, acute renal failure, and postoperative pulmonary insufficiency. As patients wer...

Objectives 1. Discuss the ten categories of most frequently occurring critical anesthesia incidents as reported by Cooper. 2. Discuss the nine most commonly associated factors in criticial anesthesia Incidents as reported by Cooper. 3. Identify eight approaches to prevention or early detection of the most frequently occurring critical anesthesia Incidents as reported by Cooper. 4. List the esse...