A panel of clinician scientists with expertise in neuromuscular blockade (NMB) monitoring
was convened with a charge to prepare a consensus statement on indications for and …

Commercial applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning have made
remarkable progress recently, particularly in areas such as image recognition, natural …

Awake tracheal intubation has a high success rate and a favourable safety profile but is
underused in cases of anticipated difficult airway management. These guidelines are a …

This guideline updates and replaces the 4th edition of the AAGBI Standards of Monitoring
published in 2007. The aim of this document is to provide guidance on the minimum …

Unconsciousness is a fundamental component of general anesthesia (GA), but
anesthesiologists have no reliable ways to be certain that a patient is unconscious. To …

Summary The World Bank will publish the nine volumes of Disease Control Priorities, 3rd
edition, in 2015–16. Volume 1—Essential Surgery—identifies 44 surgical procedures as …

Placing a patient in a state of general anesthesia is crucial for safely and humanely
performing most surgical and many nonsurgical procedures. How anesthetic drugs create …

During World War II, a young physiologist named Glenn Allen Millikan developed a light-
weight optical device which, when placed upon the earlobe, could provide a noninvasive …

In this paper, we identify 8 methods used to measure errors and adverse events in health
care and discuss their strengths and weaknesses. We focus on the reliability and validity of …

Although anaesthesiologists make up only about 5% of physicians in the United States,
anaesthesiology is acknowledged as the leading medical specialty in addressing issues of …