Publications by authors named "Jesse J Kiefer"

Article Synopsis
  • - This year’s "The Year in Cardiothoracic Critical Care" highlights significant articles published in 2023 that impact critical care anesthesiology practices.
  • - Key studies include findings on organ donation after circulatory death, blood administration's immune response in lung transplant patients, and the unnecessary use of antiplatelet therapy in Heartmate 3 patients.
  • - The review also discusses outcomes of extracorporeal CPR and challenges the need for tight glycemic control in ICU settings, indicating that these topics will continue to be researched in the future.
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Background: Patients are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to seek answers to medical queries.

Methods: Ten frequently asked questions in anaesthesia were posed to three AI chatbots: ChatGPT4 (OpenAI), Bard (Google), and Bing Chat (Microsoft). Each chatbot's answers were evaluated in a randomised, blinded order by five residency programme directors from 15 medical institutions in the USA.

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Background: Anesthesiology has a long relationship with critical care medicine (CCM). However, US anesthesiologists are less likely to practice CCM than non-US anesthesiologists. To date, no studies have compared academic contributions in CCM between US anesthesiologists and non-US anesthesiologists.

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