Our Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Division had a fantastic time at the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting this past week in Montreal! Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists | SCA #SCA2025

Incredible team effort at our multidisciplinary simulation workshops! Shout-out to Moses PACU Director Dr. Michael Kiyatkin & Anesthesiologist Dr. Bilal Tufail for facilitating these "in situ" simulations with great inter-departmental collaboration w/ ENT, ED & Dept of Medicine.

Thank you HMS MMSc-Med Ed and Montefiore Einstein Anesthesiology for supporting my DEI work during this tumultuous administration. And to my thesis committee Rose L. Molina, MD, MPH, Darshan Mehta, Krisztina Fischer, MD, PhD, MMSc, Dr. Tari Tan, and Dr. Angie Harris, this journey wouldn’t have been as fun without you.

Anesthesia Risk Assessment Score (ARAS)... sciencedirect.com/science/articl… This anesthesia preassessment instrument is very simple, can be filled out by lay persons (patients in Mychart) or non medical staff, and predicts outcomes better than the ASA score. It’s in Montefiore EPIC.

Low dose ketamine during anesthesia may help prevent postoperative delirium - alternatively, patients who we want to give a whiff of ketamine to are not those you tend to freak out Anaesthesia. Thoughts? …-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…

Congratulations to Drs. Jessica Yeh & Majed Al-Hassanieh, on receiving the 2025 Teaching Award of Excellence! Both Pediatric Anesthesiologists, they consistently demonstrate outstanding dedication to educating trainees - we are lucky to have them in our department! Montefiore Health System

Friday breakfast celebrating our graduating Pediatric Anesthesia Fellows! Congratulations to Drs. Shilpan Chokshi & Jenny Mar Rojas. We are so grateful to have had the opportunity to work with both of you throughout the last year and see you grow as Pediatric Anesthesiologists!

RCT confirms patients breath better after surgery in the stable lateral position compared to supine flat. Future research may compare elevated upper versus lateral. Our Editorial puts the findings in perspective. Simple generalizable interventions! bmj.com/content/390/bm…

Woman Surgeons get their emergent operations started earlier. More engaged, better communication and outcomes. Let’s learn! Montefiore Health System Montefiore Surgery Montefiore Einstein Anesthesiology journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger…

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We're proud to announce 3 faculty members in our department were named in the World's Top 2% Scientists list from Elsevier & Stanford University, which recognizes the most-cited researchers across the globe. Congratulations, Drs. Karaye, Nafiu & Eikermann! Montefiore Health System Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Official

💉What do you enjoy most about #anesthesiology? "How mentally stimulating it is to consider the patient's physiology and the pharmacology given the patient's medical history and their surgical needs. Also being able to do procedures." #Anesthesiologist #AnesthesiaResident

Dexmedetomidine: don’t use for routine sedation after cardiac surgery - long elimination half-life. However, it has a good place in agitated (resistent) patients journals.lww.com/anesthesia-ana…

Patients receiving epidurals and spinals - how should we manage direct oral anticoagulants? We discuss two different strategies, ASRA vs PAUSE. bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-…

New opportunity- performance improvement focused residency - many resources and opportunities

We are using too much deep sedation, typically without physician order - light sedation that accepts some discomfort allows for early mobilization and gives the patient the chance to recover to independent living after surgery and critical illness thelancet.com/journals/lanre…

Greta experience to celebrate our Montefiore Einstein research ASA 2025

We had great participation from our residents this year at ASA! Congratulations to those who presented their research including Drs. Dhanesh Binda, Dimpie Shah, Leon Yang, Zafar Karimov, and Danielle Nogoy 💯 #Anes25 Montefiore Health System Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Official

Great job, Dr. Mpody!!

Congrats to the senior author & his team Matthias Eikermann