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Background: In multicultural healthcare environments, language barriers between anesthesia providers and patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) in the preoperative period can disrupt several elements of anesthetic care. Language barriers en…

Background: One of the notable advances in healthcare is video laryngoscopy (VL), a valuable tool that can provide reassurance and safe outcomes such as less trauma to the airway, decreased intubation time and attempts, and less oxygen desaturation.…

Preoperative anxiety is a prevalent issue among parturients undergoing planned cesarean deliveries. This is significant as preprocedural anxiety affects up to 80% of laboring women and has many negative influences on both the surgical experience and…

The healthcare industry has made various advancements, yet clinicians have resisted embracing modern advances intended to improve patient outcomes. Providers may resist change because they achieved comfort with specific techniques that have proven s…

Introduction: Ketamine has redefined its role in surgical management, offering a unique pharmacological profile that expands its place in multimodal analgesia strategies. Ketamine’s dual use as an anesthetic and analgesic provides effective pain con…

Pulmonary aspiration continues to pose a significant perioperative threat to patient safety, particularly in emergent or high-risk surgical populations where fasting status is uncertain or unreliable. Anesthesia providers have traditionally relied o…

Introduction/Background: The inaccurate assessment of neuromuscular blockade (NMB) status by anesthesia providers places patients at risk for postoperative residual neuromuscular blockade (RNMB), with an incidence of up to 60% in the absence or inad…

Inadequate neuromuscular blockade assessment and the associated potential residual neuromuscular blockade represent relevant disparities in anesthesia practice. This literature review investigates the current state of research regarding neuromuscula…

Aspiration of gastric contents remains a significant perioperative complication, with potentially disastrous consequences such as pneumonia, hypoxia, or even death. Accurate assessment of aspiration risk is crucial, yet traditional clinical methods …

In the last decade, ketamine has redefined its role in surgical management, offering unique benefits that challenge traditional general anesthesia. From impacting patient satisfaction to affecting postoperative complications, ketamine is another too…

Effective pain control is a critical component of high-quality anesthesia care. Poorly managed pain during the perioperative and postoperative periods can significantly impact patient outcomes, leading to delayed recovery, psychological distress, ch…