March 2024

Anesthesia is in the middle of a major transition period. Increasingly, we’re seeing a shift away from the low-value/high-cost or ratio-based TEFRA models and a movement...

Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is the most underrated postoperative complication. It rarely gets the attention it deserves, and it’s our patients who suffer...

Regional anesthesia has become a core component of our workflow at OAM Surgery Center at MidTowne. We perform orthopedics procedures only, averaging between...

It wasn’t until the caregiver team was debriefing that Connie Schwendeman, MSN, RN, CPAN, NPD-BC, began to relax. Ms. Schwendeman, a corporate learning consultant...

Early in my career, I was assigned to a patient scheduled for surgery who was supposed to be under the care of an anesthesiologist, only to be later informed that...

In the public consciousness, postoperative recoveries are so frequently associated with opioid misuse that TV dramatizations and documentaries about it litter the streaming...