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Updated Feb. 9, 2010

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Haiti Disaster, Unprecedented In Destruction, Prompts Historic Medical Aid Effort
ISSUE: FEBRUARY 2010
With an estimated 100,000 to 150,000 dead, and some 250,000 injured, the Haiti quake stands as one of the worst natural disasters in recent history. It also prompted one of the largest medical missions, as physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other health care providers have streamed to the stricken island nation to assist in the rescue effort. read more

Revised Policy Allows Unsupervised Labor Epidurals by CRNAs
CMS Issues New Interpretive Guidelines
ISSUE: FEBRUARY 2010
Certified registered nurse anesthetists are specifically permitted to administer labor epidurals for analgesia and to perform “minimal to moderate sedation” for other purposes without physician supervision under new interpretive guidelines for hospital anesthesia recently issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. read more

ICU Patients Exposed To Substantial Radiation
ISSUE: FEBRUARY 2010
Patients on mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit often undergo repeated radiologic scans during their treatment, in some cases receiving cumulative exposures akin to survivors of atomic warfare, a new study has found. read more

Cocaine Users Present Unique Anesthetic Challenges: Part 1
ISSUE: FEBRUARY 2010
This article is Part 1 of a two-part series by Lowell Feinstein, DO, MBA, and Keith Schmidt, MD. Part 2, in a subsequent issue, will discuss treatment protocols for cocaine toxicity and the findings of a survey on the anesthetic management of otherwise healthy patients who abuse cocaine and are scheduled to undergo surgery. read more

Post–Kidney Transplant Patients at Risk for Drug Errors
ISSUE: JANUARY 2010
et another study has shown that a computerized prescriber order entry (CPOE) system is not a cure-all for medication errors. This time, the technology failed to prevent more than 100 clinically significant drug errors during an audit of an inpatient renal transplant unit. read more

• Anesthesiologist Reuben Charged With Research Fraud

• California Anesthesiologists Buck Governor Over CRNA Role

• OR Fires More Common Than Once Believed

• CricothyroID-itis

• Is Medical Publishing Due for an Exorcism?

• With Few Successors, Succinylcholine Lingers, Warts and All

• Federal Audit Sees Sharp Rise in Transforaminal Injections

• Combo Drug Effective for Neuropathic Pain

• Model: Routine Post-op Capnography Quickly Pays for Itself

• Correspondence


•	Anesthesiologist Reuben Charged With Research Fraud
•	Is Technology Making Anesthesiologists Obsolete?
•	CricothyroID-itis
•	“Triple Low” During Surgery Tied To Greater Post-Op Mortality
•	Drug Officials Stress Safety During Propofol Shortage


•	One Wish for Health Care in America? 1
•	Sedation and the Critical Airway 2
•	Regional Anesthesia And the Patient With Preexisting Neuropathy 1
•	Is Technology Making Anesthesiologists Obsolete? 13
•	AIMS Data A Gold Mine—With Some Tarnish 1