{"title":"Learnings From an Audit of Anesthesia Information Management System for Neurosurgery Operating Room Utilization.","authors":"Rohit Malhotra, Kamath Sriganesh, Sudhir Venkataramaiah, Dhritiman Chakrabarti","doi":"10.1097/ANA.0000000000001021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/ANA.0000000000001021","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>An anesthesia information management system (AIMS) can be used to assess operating room utilization. The aim of this study was to assess neurosurgery OR utilization patterns using an AIMS.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This retrospective audit was performed at a tertiary neurosciences university hospital over a 1-year period. The time taken for various OR activities were identified from the timestamps recorded in the AIMS and used to assess whether the type of surgical procedure, patient's American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status score, case schedule order, or surgeons' experience impacted operating room utilization.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Data from 1800 patients were available for analysis. Utilization times for various operating room activities were different based on the type of surgery, ASA grade, case order, and surgeon seniority. The main differences were found in the durations of surgery and anesthesia, and the time from the arrival of a patient into the operating room and the start of surgery, which were significantly impacted by the type of surgery, case order, and surgeon seniority (P<0.001), but not by ASA score.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>AIMS can effectively track and identify operating room utilization patterns by analyzing the durations of various operating room activities. Prospective multicenter studies are required to validate these findings in different surgical populations and centers.</p>","PeriodicalId":16550,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurosurgical anesthesiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142921861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jing Xu, Sri Hasrha Boppana, Laura Scott, Erica Trauner, Cody Chavarria, Kristen Penberthy, Ryan Nicholson, Arthur Gribensk, Matthew Sklar, Borui Sun, Parisa Jafari Khouzani, Arman Mehrzadeh, Na Li, Ritwik Raj, Natalie Waldron, Seoho Lee, C David Mintz
{"title":"A Systematic Review of the Methodology of Developmental Anesthetic Neurotoxicity Research in Rodent Models.","authors":"Jing Xu, Sri Hasrha Boppana, Laura Scott, Erica Trauner, Cody Chavarria, Kristen Penberthy, Ryan Nicholson, Arthur Gribensk, Matthew Sklar, Borui Sun, Parisa Jafari Khouzani, Arman Mehrzadeh, Na Li, Ritwik Raj, Natalie Waldron, Seoho Lee, C David Mintz","doi":"10.1097/ANA.0000000000000996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/ANA.0000000000000996","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16550,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurosurgical anesthesiology","volume":"37 1","pages":"141-147"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143066240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jennifer Busse, Teeda Pinyavat, Jean Guglielminotti, Monique Hedderson, Constance Houck
{"title":"Considerations of Health Care Disparity in Study Design.","authors":"Jennifer Busse, Teeda Pinyavat, Jean Guglielminotti, Monique Hedderson, Constance Houck","doi":"10.1097/ANA.0000000000000990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/ANA.0000000000000990","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16550,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurosurgical anesthesiology","volume":"37 1","pages":"135-137"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143066250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bhiken I Naik, Abhijit V Lele, Deepak Sharma, Annemarie Akkermans, Phillip E Vlisides, Douglas A Colquhoun, Karen B Domino, Siny Tsang, Eric Sun, Lauren K Dunn
{"title":"Variability in Intraoperative Opioid and Nonopioid Utilization During Intracranial Surgery: A Multicenter, Retrospective Cohort Study.","authors":"Bhiken I Naik, Abhijit V Lele, Deepak Sharma, Annemarie Akkermans, Phillip E Vlisides, Douglas A Colquhoun, Karen B Domino, Siny Tsang, Eric Sun, Lauren K Dunn","doi":"10.1097/ANA.0000000000000960","DOIUrl":"10.1097/ANA.0000000000000960","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Key goals during intracranial surgery are to facilitate rapid emergence and extubation for early neurologic evaluation. Longer-acting opioids are often avoided or administered at subtherapeutic doses due to their perceived risk of sedation and delayed emergence. However, inadequate analgesia and increased postoperative pain are common after intracranial surgery. In this multicenter study, we describe variability in opioid and nonopioid administration patterns in patients undergoing intracranial surgery.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This was a multicenter, retrospective observational cohort study using the Multicenter Perioperative Outcomes Group database. Opioid and nonopioid practice patterns in 31,217 cases undergoing intracranial surgery across 11 institutions in the United States are described.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Across all 11 institutions, total median [interquartile range] oral morphine equivalents, normalized to weight and anesthesia duration was 0.17 (0.08 to 0.3) mg.kg.min -1 . There was a 7-fold difference in oral morphine equivalents between the lowest (0.05 [0.02 to 0.13] mg.kg.min -1 ) and highest (0.36 [0.18 to 0.54] mg.kg.min -1 ) prescribing institutions. Patients undergoing supratentorial surgery had higher normalized oral morphine equivalents compared with those having infratentorial surgery [0.17 [0.08-0.31] vs. 0.15 [0.07-0.27] mg/kg/min -1 ; P <0.001); however, this difference is clinically small. Nonopioid analgesics were not administered in 20% to 96.8% of cases across institutions.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study found wide variability for both opioid and nonopioid utilization at an institutional level. Future work on practitioner-level opioid and nonopioid use and its impact on outcomes after intracranial surgery should be conducted.</p>","PeriodicalId":16550,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurosurgical anesthesiology","volume":" ","pages":"70-74"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11436478/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140305958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abstracts From the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care, September 12-14, 2024.","authors":"","doi":"10.1097/ANA.0000000000001013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/ANA.0000000000001013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16550,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurosurgical anesthesiology","volume":"37 1","pages":"e1-e49"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143066242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Use of Sedative and Analgesic Agents in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Patients: Pediatric Health Information System Database.","authors":"Jennifer J Lee, Ann Kim, Shawn S Jackson","doi":"10.1097/ANA.0000000000000992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/ANA.0000000000000992","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16550,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurosurgical anesthesiology","volume":"37 1","pages":"114-118"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143066367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Noah Wheaton, Natasha Harrison, Anthony Doufas, Dipro Chakraborty, Alan Lee Chang, Nima Aghaeepour, Mark A Burbridge
{"title":"Incidence of Coexisting Diseases in Adult Moyamoya Vasculopathy Patients by Racial Group at a Large American Referral Center.","authors":"Noah Wheaton, Natasha Harrison, Anthony Doufas, Dipro Chakraborty, Alan Lee Chang, Nima Aghaeepour, Mark A Burbridge","doi":"10.1097/ANA.0000000000000962","DOIUrl":"10.1097/ANA.0000000000000962","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16550,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurosurgical anesthesiology","volume":" ","pages":"88-90"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140293778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kangda Zhang, Xinyan Wang, Youxuan Wu, Fa Liang, Xuan Hou, Zihui Zhang, Anxin Wang, Liping Liu, Ruquan Han
{"title":"Intensive Versus Standard Blood Pressure Management after Endovascular Therapy for Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.","authors":"Kangda Zhang, Xinyan Wang, Youxuan Wu, Fa Liang, Xuan Hou, Zihui Zhang, Anxin Wang, Liping Liu, Ruquan Han","doi":"10.1097/ANA.0000000000000961","DOIUrl":"10.1097/ANA.0000000000000961","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prospective clinical studies on blood pressure (BP) management targets after endovascular therapy (EVT) for acute ischemic stroke (AIS) have recently been published. Our objective was to assess the impact on clinical outcomes of BP management guided by established systolic BP (SBP) targets within the first 24 hours after successful EVT. Four randomized controlled trials (RCTs) including 1556 participants across 5 SBP target settings identified from 5 databases up to September 6, 2023 were included in this systematic review and meta-analysis. All the intensive SBP target groups in these RCTs were combined to facilitate head-to-head comparisons. Patients receiving intensive SBP management had lower risk of 90-day functional independence as assessed by the modified Rankin scale score (relative risk [RR], 0.81; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.72 to 0.91; I2 , 12%), excellent outcomes (RR,0.86; 95% CI, 0.75 to 0.99; I2 , 7%), favorable outcomes (RR, 0.85; 95% CI, 0.78 to 0.92; I2 , 0%), and quality of life (standardized mean difference, -0.22; 95% CI, -0.35 to -0.10; I 2 ,0%). There were no differences in the probability of any intracerebral hemorrhage (RR, 1.04; 95% CI, 0.92 to 1.19; I2 ,0%), symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage (RR, 1.10; 95% CI, 0.76 to 1.60; I2 , 0%), stroke-related death (RR, 1.16; 95% CI, 0.80 to 1.68; I2 , 0%), or parenchymal hematoma (RR, 1.71; 95% CI, 0.74 to 3.98; I2 , 47%) between SBP targets. This meta-analysis provides evidence from RCTs suggesting that intensive SBP control (target<160 mm Hg) may be detrimental to clinical outcomes in AIS patients with successful reperfusion after EVT.</p>","PeriodicalId":16550,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurosurgical anesthesiology","volume":" ","pages":"20-30"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140335973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Pediatric Anesthesia Safety Initiative: A Public-Private Partnership for Children.","authors":"Andrew Knapp, Lena Sun, Wendy Sanhai","doi":"10.1097/ANA.0000000000000998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/ANA.0000000000000998","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16550,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurosurgical anesthesiology","volume":"37 1","pages":"98-99"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143066226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Meghan C Gray, Max Feinstein, Manon Hache, Stephen Sands, Cynthia Salorio
{"title":"Approaches and Tools for Neurodevelopmental Assessment: Remote, Virtual, and Computer-Based.","authors":"Meghan C Gray, Max Feinstein, Manon Hache, Stephen Sands, Cynthia Salorio","doi":"10.1097/ANA.0000000000000993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/ANA.0000000000000993","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16550,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurosurgical anesthesiology","volume":"37 1","pages":"125-127"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143066248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}