The ECRI, a nonprofit that researches medical drugs and devices, issued a position statement in June on the use of smartphones that looks at its benefits and safety risks.

Here is the second part of our podcast with Dr. Marjorie Podraza

Stiegler, MD, an anesthesiologist at The University of North

Carolina at Chapel Hill and a member of the Anesthesiology

News Advisory Board, on

the health care industry's response to untoward critical events in the

operating room.

Marjorie Podraza Stiegler, MD, an anesthesiologist at The

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a member of the Anesthesiology News Advisory Board,

wrote an opinion piece that was published in The Journal of the American

Medical Association (JAMA

2015;313:361-362) several months ago. Titled “A Piece of My Mind.

Elizabeth A.M. Frost, MD, clinical professor of anesthesiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, in New York, chatted with editorial director James Prudden about winning the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists' (NYSSA) Distinguished Service Award and her 35-year history of working withAnesthesiology News. The award was presented during the 68th annual PostGraduate Assembly in Anesthesiology.

In the December 2013 podcast, Adam Marcus interviews Dr. John Neeld Jr., about his 2013 Rovenstine Memorial Lecture on scope of practice issues.

It's time to polish up those elevator pitches! In the November 2013

podcast, Adam Marcus talks with Dr. Donn Dennis about FAER's first Anesthesiology

Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, which will be held January 18,

2014, in Orlando

What the Sedasys Approval Means for Anesthesiologists. An

interview with Somnia's Marc Koch, MD.

Adam Marcus talks with A.J. Wright, MLS, about his article on Civil War medicine from the March 2013 issue of Anesthesiology News.

Adam Marcus, of Anesthesiology News, and Dr. Avery Tung, Professor and Quality Chief for Anesthesia at the University of Chicago, discuss the role of meta-cognition in anesthesia

practice and education.

Adam Marcus talks with Dr. Thomas Vetter, of the University of Alabama,

Birmingham, in the November 2012 podcast.