BACKGROUND Anesthesiology residencies are developing trainee assessment tools to evaluate 25 milestones that map to the six core competencies. The effort will be facilitated by development of automated methods to capture, assess, and report trainee performance to program directors, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the trainees themselves. METHODS The authors levera...

BACKGROUND Although video review has been used in teaching, it has not been reported for use as an adjunct to teaching anesthesiology residents. The purpose of the prospective, randomized, blinded study was to determine whether teaching with video review improves epidural anesthesia skills of anesthesiology residents. METHODS Twenty-two second-year (CA-2) anesthesiology residents beginning th...

751 March 2013 T anesthesia machine is the most integral piece of equipment used by anesthesia providers. When semiclosed circle systems are used, unidirectional valves become integral components that direct carbon dioxide containing gas across the absorbent and along the inspiratory limb, mixing with fresh gas as it flows into the patient. Unfortunately, human error is known to be the most com...

Anesthesiology, V 123 • No 3 499 September 2015 P OINT-Of-care (POc) ultrasound is the real-time application of ultrasound on various anatomic parts or body organs for diagnostic or procedural purposes. It is performed with standalone, usually portable, ultrasound devices that are easy to bring to the patient’s side or even carry by hand or inside one’s pocket. In this issue of aNesThesIOlOgy, ...

ANESTHESIOLOGY CLINICSwww.anesthesiology.theclinics.comConsulting EditorLEE A. FLEISHERSeptember 2022 • Volume 40 Number 3 CLINICS www.anesthesiology.theclinics.com Consulting Editor LEE FLEISHER September

BACKGROUND At many academic institutions, anesthesiology residents are responsible for managing emergent intubations outside of the operating room (OOOR), with complications estimated to be as high as 39%. In order to create an OOOR training curriculum, we evaluated residents' familiarity with the content and correct adherence to the American Society of Anesthesiologists' Difficult Airway Algor...

HEALTHCARE delivery takes place 24 h a day, 7 days a week, and is colloquially termed a “24/7” operation. Anesthesia providers are required to deliver critical around-the-clock care to a variety of patients. This parallels the situation in many other domains that provide such services, e.g., transportation, law enforcement, communications, fire fighting, technology, manufacturing, and the milit...

BACKGROUND The purpose of our study is to investigate rates of individual procedures performed by residents in our emergency medicine (EM) residency program. Different programs expose residents to different training environments. Our hypothesis is that ultrasound examinations are the most commonly performed procedure in our residency. METHODS The study took place in an academic level I trauma...

conclusions there was a decrease in cognitive function, including attention, visual memory, naming, and executive function, as well as psychomotor function among residents of department of anesthesiology and intensive care, faculty of medicine, universitas indonesia, who underwent 12 working hours. results cognitive stimulation” test revealed statistically significant decrease at sequential ima...