All lists have runner-ups. And for the article,  Game Changers: The 20 Most Important Anesthesia Articles Ever Published, published in this month’s issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, Dr. Paul Barash, Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, and coauthors note that there were other articles in contention for top position. In the discussion, most articles list […]

A recent aa2day summary described a case of a pregnant patient who suffered a cardiac arrest. The authors noted that the patient had a hyperdynamic left ventricle with concentric remodeling, signs of heart failure. It’s important that anesthesiologists caring for parturients understand the physiology and clinical presentation of heart disease, as well as the management […]