Optimising artificial intelligence ultrasound tools in anaesthesiology and perioperative medicine: The next frontier for advanced technology application.

Artificial intelligence (AI) was once considered avant-garde. However, AI permeates every industry today, impacting work and home lives in many ways. While AI-driven diagnostic and therapeutic applications already exist in medicine, a chasm remains between the potential of AI and its clinical applications.

Review of cancer therapies for the perioperative physician.

Advances in cancer treatments over the past decades combining chemotherapy with novel technologies in immunotherapies, radiation therapies, and interventional radiology have prolonged life expectancy. Patients have more options for treatments of their primary or metastatic diseases. Increased procedural techniques amid an aging population with multiple comorbidities present risks and challenges in the perioperative period.

Point-of-Care Ultrasound: A Review of Ultrasound Parameters for Predicting Difficult Airways.

Airway management remains a crucial part of perioperative care. The conventional approach to assessing potentially difficult airways emphasizes the LEMON method, which looks for and evaluates the Mallampati classification, signs of obstruction, and neck mobility. Clinical findings help predict a higher likelihood of difficult tracheal intubation, but no clinical result reliably excludes difficult intubation.

Perioperative focused cardiac ultrasound: a brief report.

Background: The anesthesiologist's emerging role as a perioperative physician has challenged the field to broaden its scope of practice to meet the demands of the patient undergoing surgery today. This brief report aims to identify the indications, clinical impact on management decisions, and perioperative focused cardiac ultrasound accuracy in patients scheduled for non-cardiac surgery.

Methods: A review from the Department of Anesthesia Perioperative Echocardiography database on transthoracic echocardiography was performed, including clinical, demographic, indications, therapeutic impact, and accuracy from February 1, 2017 to October 10, 2019.

Acute Hemodynamic Compromise following Superior Vena Cava Stent Placement: A Case Report.

Symptomatic relief of Superior Vena Cava (SVC) syndrome caused by tumor obstruction is achieved by the placement of a percutaneous superior vena cava stent. Complications are rare. Even more uncommon is acute hemodynamic compromise from acute hemopericardium during placement of an SVC stent.

Choroidal infarction following ophthalmic artery chemotherapy.

Background: Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) genetic mutations and intra-procedural inhaled nitrous oxide (NO) independently increase blood levels of homocysteine, a compound associated with thrombosis. Patients with MTHFR mutations who also receive NO during ophthalmic artery chemotherapy (OAC) for retinoblastoma may have a heightened thrombotic risk.

Case Presentations: Single-center retrospective review of pediatric patients with advanced retinoblastoma who received OAC and developed choroidal infarcts.