Training & Education New anesthesiologists are likely to be much more aware of the larger picture of perioperative care moving forward. The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) and American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) announced that “perioperative medicine” will be added as a new clinical topic within the subspecialty section to the Content Outline…
A Cleveland Clinic pediatric hospitalist sees much room for improvement in the perioperative management of pediatric patients with medical complexities characterized by rare multisystem disease. Moises Auron, MD, says that while such patients are frequently candidates for life-sustaining surgeries—often multiple surgeries—their risk for increased morbidity and mortality remains high. Cleveland…
A new study from researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery’s Lerner Children’s Pavilion describes a mentorship model for robotic-assisted navigation in pediatric spinal fusion surgery. Noting that robotic-assisted navigation systems improve pedicle screw placement accuracy while acknowledging a significant learning curve, the team implemented a structured mentorship model that paired…
A new editorial on Cureus examines the future of surgical education, particularly in terms of operative video review and its potential to “fundamentally redefine” it. The authors write that the apprenticeship model of “see one, do one, teach one" in surgical education is “increasingly challenged by modern realities: work-hour restrictions, growing…
Everyone knows the time-honored cliché about surgeons who act out as the ego-driven superstars of the OR, and to whom everyone else on the perioperative team defers or even fears. In one periop leader’s experience, that dynamic has changed. “The physician of today is not the physician of 10 years…
Wake Tech, North Carolina’s largest community college, last week lifted the final beam on what it says will be one of the nation’s “largest and most comprehensive simulation hospitals.” Wake Tech said the Perry Family Simulation Hospital, scheduled to open on its Perry Health Sciences Campus in Raleigh in fall…
