A Retrospective and Prospective Cohort Study Comparing Pediatric Patients With Cleft Lip and Palate From the United States and Guatemala.

Orofacial clefts (OFC) remain among the most prevalent congenital abnormalities worldwide. In the United States in 2010 to 2014, 16.2 of 10,000 live births are born with OFC compared with 23.

Thomas Dent Mütter, M.D. (1811 to 1859): Exemplar of Expertise.

Thomas Dent Mütter, a Philadelphia plastic surgeon in the 1840s, boldly championed anesthesia when few physicians were convinced of its virtues. He was an early advocate of handwashing and hygienic wound care and helped pioneer the concept of postoperative recovery units. A leader in education, Mütter used a highly interactive style of teaching and restructured medical school classes to raise the caliber of clinical training.

Impact of Illustrated Postoperative Instructions on Knowledge and Retention During a Cleft Lip and Palate Surgical Mission.

Objective: To determine the impact of illustrated postoperative instructions on patient-caregiver knowledge and retention.

Design: Prospective study with all participants receiving an educational intervention.

Setting: Pediatric plastic surgical missions in Guatemala City, Guatemala, between 2019 and 2020.

Academic Anesthesiologists Perceive Significant Internal Barriers to Intraoperative Teaching in a Cross-Sectional Survey.

Background: Academic anesthesiologists have numerous demands on their time, and this can erode teaching quality. Reducing barriers to teaching may ameliorate this. The primary aim of this study is to evaluate the learning environment and identify barriers to clinical teaching using a multicenter survey approach.

Getting to know a familiar face: Current and emerging focused ultrasound applications for the perioperative setting.

Ultrasound technology is available in many pediatric perioperative settings. There is an increasing number of ultrasound applications for anesthesiologists which may enhance clinical performance, procedural safety, and patient outcomes. This review highlights the literature and experience supporting focused ultrasound applications in the pediatric perioperative setting across varied disciplines including anesthesiology.

Professionalism in pediatric anesthesiology: Affirmation of a definition based on results of a nationally administered survey of pediatric anesthesiologists.

Background: Previously published work established the need for a specialty-specific definition of professionalism in pediatric anesthesiology. That work established a composite definition consisting of 11 domains and their component "defining themes" for professionalism in pediatric anesthesiology. As a next step toward assessing generalizability of our single-center findings, we sought to gain input from a national sample of pediatric anesthesiologists.

Working to define professionalism in pediatric anesthesiology: a qualitative study of domains of the expert pediatric anesthesiologist as valued by interdisciplinary stakeholders.

Background: Unprofessional behavior is a significant problem throughout graduate medical education programs and medical centers. Some authors have suggested that professionalism curricula should be focused toward faculty, not trainees, to interrupt the modeling of unprofessionalism. Developing such curricula requires a needs assessment and is challenging given data indicating that the definition of professionalism varies based on medical specialty.