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September 12, 2022
Ten years ago, in a Letter addressed to the Editor of the American Society of Anesthesiologists Newsletter, I queried why head position was not mentioned as a preplanned strategy in the 2012 ASA Difficult Airway…
August 12, 2022
India, which is the second most populated country in the globe, has been facing dual burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases in the last three decades. To manage this enormous case load, India is…
August 1, 2022
When the APSF Newsletter Editorial Board recently considered the proposal to publish a column compiling summaries of current relevant literature regarding perioperative patient safety, the founding Editor…
June 23, 2022
To the Editor: We would like to commend the authors of the article titled Postpartum Peripheral Nerve Injuries – What is Anesthesia’s Role?, printed in the June 2021 issue of…
May 10, 2022
Ophthalmic surgery is a common procedure performed in the United States under MAC with local anesthesia. In the COVID era, providers chose MAC with the use of peripheral nerve blocks to minimize the added safety risk of…
November 2, 2021
Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new drug for the treatment of postoperative pain after bunionectomy, open inguinal herniorrhaphy and total knee arthroplasty…
