Congratulations to Cecilia Canales, MD, MPH for receiving a 2024-25 KL2 Translational Science Award from UCLA CTSI! 🎉 Her proposal is entitled: “Improving Post-surgical Cognitive Outcomes in Limited English Proficient Older Adults: A Pilot Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial.”

FREE TO VIEW. PeriOperative Quality Initiative (POQI) international consensus statement on perioperative arterial pressure management #openaccess #bloodpressure #perioperative #anaesthesia bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-…

🆕 Understanding real-world healthcare AI outcomes is critical, which is why our new perspective calls for development and funding of 𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 focused on clinical effectiveness (🧵 - 1/6)

Allyson Felix holds a record 20 World Championship medals and 11 Olympic medals, including seven golds. She is acutely aware of what it takes to be an elite athlete, and an elite athlete mom. She is teaming up with Pampers to create the first-ever Pampers Nursery in the Athletes

Improvement toolkits & good practice databases are useful but they only take us so far. As much as 80% of the knowledge in an organisation isn't written down. It's not a failure of documentation. it's to do with the nature of the knowledge and the way it gets spread. That's why

Early exposure to general anaesthesia during childhood affects local and global visual processing in children. New cohort analysis by Salaun et al #children #vision bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-…

Individualising goal-directed haemodynamic therapy - future iterations will require novel trial designs. New editorial by Dr Mark Edwards #GDHT #fluids #periopertive #anaestheasia bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-…

Elisabeth Kooi and team from the ESPR NIRS Special interest group discuss 📚 Comprehensive review on NIRS applications and potential clinical use 🔗rdcu.be/dMylZ

Elizabeth Craze, the oldest pediatric heart transplant survivor at Stanford, marks 40 years since her life-saving surgery with the same donor heart. #HeartTransplant #Milestone bit.ly/3Lus23N

Body composition scores reflecting the quantity and quality of skeletal muscle were strongly correlated with patient frailty and associated with 30-day readmission and postop mortality and morbidity. ja.ma/3Wxo4Ot

In this study of firearm suicide among US children and young adults, there was important state-level variability, with the highest proportion of firearm deaths due to suicide observed in clusters in the Mountain West and the Northeast. ja.ma/3Y1iYLi

Lactating shouldn't decrease your compensation. Delighted to share there will now be a lactation credit to the tune of about 5 hours of wRVU credit per week for our lactating faculty!

How to write a scientific paper in four slides:⬇️ A simple guide by Dr. Andrew M. Ibrahim MD, MSc (He/Him).  Full guide: surgeryredesign.com/s/WritingForIm…

Phenomenal impactful work by UCLA Anesthesiology residents Mishan Rambukwella, MD, MBA & Kathy Sumie Lehuanani Cazares . Well done!! 👏👏👏

High levels of ‘social capital’ (the value gained when people work well together) create the conditions for high performance in health & care. The evaluation of 5 NHS organisations that undertook whole system transformation showed that social capital is more important than human

#Infographic in #Anesthesiology - How Low Will It Go? Predicting Intraoperative Hypotension 🎨 ow.ly/2u6m50SZHnh

Equity in health care is essential to positive patient outcomes. In a study of 88 hospitals in Canada, those with over 35% female surgeons and #anesthesiologists had fewer major post-op complications, ICU admissions, and deaths: ow.ly/n7OE50T1rJi #WomensEqualityDay

Happy #WomenInMedicineMonth! Join FAER in thanking & celebrating the exceptional women improving #Anesthesiology & Medicine through #Research – especially the outstanding #FAERgrantees pictured! 🥳 Women in Anesthesiology #WIMMonth #InvestInHer #SheLeadsHealthcare #WomenInMedicine

Our well-being is influenced by pervasive, complex factors. In anesthesiology, we’re used to navigating spaces full of complexity. When it comes to our fulfillment, we stand to benefit if we embrace the complexity of well-being antecedents. journals.lww.com/anesthesia-ana…

I really like this new article on psychological safety (a belief that we can speak up, take risks & make mistakes without fear of being judged, humiliated or punished) at work. It sets out a series of activities/approaches that all of us can use to build psychological safety in