Steven Shafer

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August 2014: Anesthesia & Analgesia

July 22, 2014 By Steven Shafer in This issue

The August issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia has just posted. Dr. Steven Shafer, editor-in-chief, Anesthesia & Analgesia: Ding and colleagues (Epidural Labor Analgesia Is Associated with a Decreased Risk of Postpartum Depression: A Prospective Cohort Study) at Peking Union Medical Center found that epidural anesthesia decreased the risk of postpartum depression. In their accompanying editorial Wisner […]

April 2014 Anesthesia & Analgesia

March 21, 2014 By Steven Shafer in This issue

We fear our own death, and see death as the ultimate defeat of our medical care for our patients. In “Diagnosing Dying” Papadimos and colleagues observe that physicians often fail to diagnose that a patient is literally dying, and thus fail to provide appropriate care and guidance. In their accompanying editorial (Anesthesiologists and the Quality […]

February 2014 Anesthesia & Analgesia

January 22, 2014 By Steven Shafer in This issue

• Despite being the subject of more than 4,000 publications (according to PubMed), two decades of study using the best tools in molecular biology, and previous collections in Anesthesia & Analgesia, malignant hyperthermia (MH) remains a mysterious disease. As described in an editorial by Dr. Jerome Parness (Hot on the Trail of “I Know it […]

January 2014 Anesthesia & Analgesia

December 20, 2013 By Steven Shafer in This issue

• Dr. Lawrence Saidman and 2 anonymous co-authors (It’s Still Plagiarism) describe the experience of textbook chapter authors who saw their scholarship massively copied in subsequent versions of the textbook that inappropriately attributed their scholarship to new authors. The 3 accompanying editorials are uncompromising. Marcovitch and Barbour (Whose Words in the Textbook?) suggest “editors and […]

December 2013: Anesthesia & Analgesia

November 20, 2013 By Steven Shafer in This issue

Komatsu and colleagues (Anesthetic Induction with Etomidate, Rather than Propofol, Is Associated with Increased 30-Day Mortality and Cardiovascular Morbidity After Noncardiac Surgery) identified a 2.5 fold increase in likelihood of death and a 1.5 fold increase in cardiovascular morbidity in a retrospective study of 2144 patients who received etomidate for induction of noncardiac anesthesia as […]

November 2013: Anesthesia & Analgesia

October 23, 2013 By Steven Shafer in This issue

A forgotten step in an emergency could make the difference between survival and death. Goldhaber-Fiebert and Howard(Implementing Emergency Manuals: Can Cognitive Aids Help Translate Best Practices for Patient Care During Acute Events?) explain why cognitive aids are an essential component of effective crisis management, and outline the steps necessary to incorporate cognitive aids into clinical […]