A Qualitative Exploration of the Career-Choice Journey of Women in Anesthesiology.

Background: Women are underrepresented in the anesthesiology physician workforce. Additionally, recruitment of women into the specialty has been stagnant over the past 2 decades. Current evidence is lacking regarding how and why women navigate the career-exploration journey to find anesthesiology.

Wake up to the gender gap in academic anesthesiology and address the pipeline.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are important values in health care and academic medicine. Although women have comprised nearly 50% of all US medical school graduates since the early 2000s, gender disparities continue in many specialties and persist in medical education leadership. For women in anesthesiology, gender inequities exist along the academic pipeline, with greater disparity in the higher ranks of academia and leadership.

Rates of major obstetrical complications vary almost fivefold among US hospitals.

Of the approximately four million women who give birth each year in the United States, nearly 13 percent experience one or more major complications. But the extent to which the rates of major obstetrical complications vary across hospitals in the United States is unknown. We used multivariable logistic regression models to examine the variation in obstetrical complication outcomes across US hospitals among a large, nationally representative sample of more than 750,000 obstetrical deliveries in 2010.

Can parturients identify the midline during neuraxial block placement?

Study Objective: To determine whether parturients can reliably identify their midline during epidural or spinal needle insertion, and to determine whether parturient feedback helps the anesthesiologist successfully identify the midline.

Design: Survey instrument completed by anesthesiologists.

Setting: Labor and delivery unit of a university-based, tertiary-care hospital.