Introduced in early July 2019 to Congress, H.R. bill 3630—known as the No Surprises Act—is intended to limit out-of-network rates that may be charged to individuals insured by healthcare plans…

Ventilation strategies for infants and children are also important to tailor to each patient as there is greater risk for barotrauma and atelectrauma. The closing capacity of an infant’s lungs…

Providing safe and effective anesthesia for the pediatric population is an undertaking that involves several unique challenges the anesthesiologist must consider. To the untrained, it would seem everything is just…

In the modern practice of Anesthesiology, we strive to make clinical decisions based on evidence. Outcomes research is the discipline that focuses on providing this evidence. In short, it tells…

Primary care physicians (PCPs) are instrumental to comprehensive healthcare management, particularly in providing common treatments and tracking patient care across time. Alarmingly, a 2018 study by the American Association of…

A shared language, particularly in treatment settings, is of crucial importance to effective communication between medical professionals and their patients. In order for clinicians to obtain an accurate and complete…

Evidence-based clinical practice is an approach to health care in which professionals use the best evidence possible—i.e., scientific data and other appropriate information—to make clinical decisions about patient care.1 Evidence-based practice…