Publications by authors named "Alyssa B Brzenski"
Article Synopsis
- The Pediatric Anesthesia COVID-19 Collaborative (PEACOC) studied COVID-19 prevalence among children undergoing anesthesia during the pandemic, finding lower infection rates than in the general population.
- The study analyzed data from 33,320 anesthesia encounters across 12 centers, identifying several independent risk factors for COVID-19 positivity, including race, ethnicity, and specific medical conditions.
- This research represents the first large-scale universal testing for COVID-19 in pediatric anesthesia, providing insights into how certain factors correlate with infection risk during surgery.
Unintentional left mainstem bronchial intubation after direct laryngoscopy is less common than unintentional right mainstem bronchial intubation, having only been referenced 3 times outside of the anesthesia literature. We report a case of unintentional left mainstem intubation at an extremely short incisor-to-carina distance. We hypothesize that the left mainstem intubation occurred because of a distortion of the anatomy of the tracheal bifurcation, caused by the patient's severe ascites, hepatomegaly, and collapsed right lower lobe, thus creating a shallower angle of the left mainstem bronchus from midline.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStudy Objectives: The digital rectal examination (DRE) may assist physicians in detecting spinal cord injury in patients with blunt trauma. However, the test characteristics of the DRE for detecting spinal cord injury are unknown.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective review of consecutive adult patients with blunt trauma over a 2-year period.