September, 2013

World Anesthesia Day - City-Wide Grand Rounds

Friday, September 27, 2013

Join us on Wednesday, October 23, 2013 to celebrate World Anesthesia Day. Our invited guest, Dr. Donald Miller, will be speaking at City-Wide Grand Rounds, 07:15, UH Aud A, on the topic "Reporting transparency in biomedical publication: what we, as readers, should know". … (Read More)

Regional Anesthesia Team receives research prize at ESRA Meeting, Glasgow UK.

Monday, September 16, 2013

The Department's Regional Anesthesia team had great success at 32nd Annual ESRA Meeting, and received 3rd Prize for best E-Poster Discussion, "Comparison of electronic beam steering with echogenic needle for needle visibility during ultrasound-guided Regional Anesthesia; SEE FULL POSTER … (Read More)

Looking for the perfect image or video for your lecture slides?

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Western Libraries subscribes to The SMART Imagebase; a premier database of accurate, high quality medical illustrations, animations, and interactive multimedia. Images are available for downloading and educational use. … (Read More)

Updates in Version 5.8 of STAR, and CME accredited course for faculty

Monday, September 9, 2013

Updates include an automatic import from Pubmed using PubMed ID, enhancements to Common CV export, etc. Is your CV up to date? There is also now a CME accredited intro course for STAR, designed for clinical faculty. … (Read More)

Fall 2013 Internal Research Fund Competition - Call for Applications

Monday, September 9, 2013

The Departmental Research Committee invites you to submit proposals to the Fall 2013 Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine Internal Research Fund competition... … (Read More)

Lawson SOP Training for Clinical Research

Monday, September 9, 2013

Lawson's new Standard Operating Procedures for clinical research took effect September 1st – are you following procedure? Here's what you need to do now... … (Read More)

In the Literature: New Research from Our Faculty (Dr. Kamal Kumar [Fellow], Dr. Arif Al Arebi, and Dr. Indu Singh)

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Accidental intravenous infusion of a large dose of magnesium sulphate during labor: A case report. J Anaesthesiol Clin Pharmacol 2013;29:377-9. ...Keywords: Drug error, inadvertent, magnesium sulphate toxicity, obstetric … (Read More)

In the Literature: New Research from Our Faculty (Dr. Achal Dhir)

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Anesthesia for liver transplantation. Semin Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2013 Sep;17(3):180-94 … (Read More)

In the Literature: New Research from Our Faculty (Dr. Ronit Lavi and Dr.Davy Cheng)

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Pro: continuous cardiac output and SvO2 monitoring should be routine during off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery. In: J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2012 Dec;26(6):1131-5. … (Read More)