Now that’s how to finish off a great conference! Ice cream bars leading into the last session of #ASRASpring23 #ASRA100

Talking about the #opioidcrisis . Over 100,000 Americans died of overdose last year. That’s the equivalent of a commercial jet crashing and killing everyone on board every single day. We need to do better and we need to do more. #ASRASpring23 #ASRA100

At The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center our annual faculty modules includes addressing implicit bias. iIt can be quite enlightening to learn of my own implicit biases and I try use that knowledge to pay attention and avoid having those biases affect #patientcare #ASRASpring23 #ASRA100

Happy Birthday to Desflurane and Diana!

Happy Caturday!

Everyone in academic medicine says, "Ooh get ready for July" Yeah, get ready to welcome a group of enthusiastic new physicians with an untainted love of medicine 😁 This is the energy boost that our profession needs! When you see them, give a warm "Welcome, Doctor!"

#Infographic in #Anesthesiology - Perioperative Medication Management 🎨 ow.ly/NqtQ50Pin9M

My heart is broken💔: As friends & family know, my wife was pregnant with our 2nd child, & about to begin her 2nd trimester. A few days ago she had severe pains, & bleeding, and had to go to the emergency room. There, it was discovered that our baby no longer had a heartbeat.

58 measles cases on Tuesday is now more than 90. Measles is THE most contagious illness. A infected person can infect 18 others with one exposure. Virus can survive for hours in air. The vaccine is 99% effective, but low vaccine rates allow viral spread. This was preventable.

It’s great to see real evidence on best practice for holding GLP-1 meds before anesthesia #ASRASPRING25 #ASRA50

Head Injuries Are a Growing Risk for Anesthesiologists, Experts Warn nbc39.com/health/head-in… via WNBJ 39

Periop pearls from Harsha Shanthanna talk on CRPS management ASRA Pain Medicine ✅Avoid IVRA + tourniquets ✅Consider sympathetic blocks (stellate/lumbar) ✅Oral steroids: 20 mg/day × 7d, taper to 5 mg by wk 4 ✅Ketamine infusions: start 10 mg/h, max 40 mg/h #ASRA50 #ASRASpring25

Updated recommendations for anticoagulants and neuraxial anesthesia At #ASRASPRING25 #ASRA50

When the next cardiologist tries to argue that the PAUSE trial only says to hold for two days instead of three, remind them that the trial defined “two days” as 68 hours #ASRASPRING25 Sandy Kopp #ASRA50

A pragmatic approach to evaluating new techniques in regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine #ASRASPRING25 ➡️ improving outcomes? ➡️ enhancing efficiency? ➡️ increasing access? ➡️ decreasing disparities? Ed Mariano, MD, MAS, FASA, FASRA 🇺🇸🇵🇭 ASRA Pain Medicine Commonwealth Fund tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.22…

Dr. Lawrence Tsen makes the case for DPE with the advantages of CSE of faster onset and sacral spread and fewer of the downsides of fetal bradycardia or the untested catheter #ASRASPRING25 #ASRA50

Still deciding whether PIEB is better than CEI for labor analgesia. I still mainly use CEI with PCEA. Great overview and summary from Dr. Ana Sjaus #ASRASPRING25 #ASRA50

Alternatives to EBP for PDPH. I’ve done a few SPG with only one successful resolution. EBP is still the gold standard. #ASRASPRING25 #ASRA50

Excellent panel discussion on handling RA complications #ASRASpring25 #ASRA50 RLJohnson