Anesthesia and analgesia
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Anesthesia and analgesia · Aug 2018
The Incidence of Transfusion-Related Acute Lung Injury at a Large, Urban Tertiary Medical Center: A Decade's Experience.
While transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) remains the primary cause of transfusion-related fatalities (37%), recent reports estimate the incidence of TRALI at 0.008% per unit of plasma transfused and 0.004% per all products transfused. Because blood banks have moved toward male-predominant plasma, TRALI appears, anecdotally, to have been reduced to an extremely rare event. The purpose of this study was to estimate the current incidence of TRALI at a large, urban center known for its early and aggressive use of plasma in the setting of trauma, hemorrhagic shock, and massive transfusion. ⋯ This study demonstrates that while TRALI still occurs, clinically meaningful cases are rare. Moreover, TRALI rates remain low despite the increasingly aggressive use of plasma and platelets in the trauma setting.
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Anesthesia and analgesia · Aug 2018
Gender Distribution of the American Board of Anesthesiology Diplomates, Examiners, and Directors (1985-2015).
To understand the potential role of women in leadership positions, data from the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) were analyzed to explore the impact of women in the specialty of anesthesiology. The number of newly certified ABA diplomates, oral examiners, and directors from 1985 to 2015 was obtained from the ABA database. The percentages of women in each group were calculated for each year. ⋯ The correlation coefficient between the percentages of women directors and women examiners 7 years prior from 1992 to 2015 was 0.86 (P < .001). The percentage of newly certified women diplomates, examiners, and directors increased steadily from 1985 to 2015. The percentage of women examiners lagged behind that of women diplomates 10 years prior from 1995 to 2015; however, the percentage of women directors was, on average, higher than that of the women examiners 7 years prior from 1992 to 2015.