Sleep Medicine

Mar 7, 2020 by in ANESTHESIA Comments Off on Sleep Medicine

Key Points ▪ Sleep is a dynamic neuronal and behavioral state that can be characterized using specific electroencephalographic, electrophysiologic, and behavioral findings. ▪ Characteristics of sleep can be quantified using…

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Consciousness, Memory, and Anesthesia

Mar 7, 2020 by in ANESTHESIA Comments Off on Consciousness, Memory, and Anesthesia

Key Points ▪ Mechanisms of consciousness and memory, and their interruption by general anesthetics, are important scientific problems that have clinical relevance for the practice of anesthesiology. ▪ Consciousness is…

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Ethical Aspects of Anesthesia Care

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Key Points ▪ Deontologic (“rules-based”) ethical theory and utilitarian (outcome-based) theory clash in clinical scenarios in which the interests of individual patients are pitted against the interests of larger populations….

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Informatics in Perioperative Medicine

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Key Points ▪ Individual computers are connected via networks to share information across many users. ▪ Information security is about ensuring that the correct information is available only to the…

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Perioperative Medicine

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Key Points ▪ The practice of anesthesiology continues to evolve with health care for patients undergoing new and, in many cases, more complicated procedures in the operating room as well…

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The Scope of Modern Anesthetic Practice

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Key Points ▪ The scope of modern anesthesia practice includes preoperative evaluation and preparation; intraprocedural care; postoperative care including acute pain management; critical care, resuscitation, and retrieval; chronic pain management;…

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