Year in review 2022: Noteworthy literature in cardiac anesthesiology

E Christensen, J Morabito, M Kowalsky… - Seminars in …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Last year researchers made substantial progress in work relevant to the practice of cardiac
anesthesiology. We reviewed 389 articles published in 2022 focused on topics related to …

A quality improvement initiative to reduce adverse effects of transitions of anesthesia care on postoperative outcomes: a retrospective cohort study

AK Saha, S Segal - Anesthesiology, 2024 - pubs.asahq.org
Background An intraoperative transfer of care from one anesthesia provider to another, or
handover, may result in information loss and contribute to adverse patient outcomes. In 2019 …

Pretreatment of the ROS inhibitor phenyl-N-tert-butylnitrone alleviates sleep deprivation-induced hyperalgesia by suppressing microglia activation and NLRP3 …

Y Huang, J Hao, X Yang, L Xu, Y Liu, Y Sun, X Gu… - Neurochemical …, 2023 - Springer
Sleep deprivation, a common perioperative period health problem, causes ocular discomfort
and affects postsurgical pain. However, the mechanism of sleep deprivation-induced …

The efficacy of multifaceted versus single anesthesia work area infection control measures and the importance of surgical site infection follow-up duration

F Dexter, JR Brown, RT Wall, RW Loftus - Journal of clinical anesthesia, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Earlier a randomized trial showed efficacy of a multifaceted intervention
approach for reducing surgical site infection: hand hygiene, vascular care, environmental …

Handoffs and the challenges to implementing teamwork training in the perioperative environment

S Paquette, M Kilcullen, O Hoffman… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Perioperative handoffs are high-risk events for miscommunications and poor care
coordination, which cause patient harm. Extensive research and several interventions have …

Estimation of the contribution to intraoperative pathogen transmission from bacterial contamination of patient nose, patient groin and axilla, anesthesia practitioners' …

F Dexter, RW Loftus - Journal of clinical anesthesia, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Earlier studies showed net cost saving from anesthesia practitioners' use of a
bundle of infection prevention products, with feedback on monitored Staphylococcus aureus …

Extension of patient safety initiatives to perioperative care

D Arnal-Velasco, D Paz-Martín - Current Opinion in …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Extension of patient safety initiatives to perioperative car... : Current Opinion in Anesthesiology
Extension of patient safety initiatives to perioperative care : Current Opinion in Anesthesiology …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying and interpreting inequality in surgical site infections per quarter among anesthetizing locations and specialties

F Dexter, RH Epstein, RW Loftus - Cureus, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Quantifying and Interpreting Inequality in Surgical Site Infections per Quarter Among
Anesthetizing Locations and Specialties - PMC Back to Top Skip to main content NIH NLM Logo …

Outcomes from intraoperative handovers of anesthesia care

PM Jones, LY Sun, MJ Brenner - JAMA, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
To the Editor A recent randomized clinical trial1 (RCT) from Germany investigating the effect
of intraoperative handovers of anesthesia care on mortality, readmission, or postoperative …

[HTML][HTML] Improved recall of handover information in a simulated emergency–A randomised controlled trial

P Fischer, R Abendschein, M Berberich… - Resuscitation …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Handovers during medical emergencies are challenging due to time-critical,
dynamic and oftentimes unorderly and distracting situations. We evaluated the effect of …