Proof of Concept for a Novel Curriculum: Learning a Second Language during Anesthesiology Residency.

This article describes a novel curriculum for anesthesiology residents matriculating through Brigham and Women's Department of Anesthesiology. It is offered electively and provides physician residents with time to acquire language skills through a medically-focused immersion program abroad. It is designed for them to learn or improve a second language and then to speak it while practicing perioperative medicine.

Obesity & hypertension are determinants of poor hemodynamic control during total joint arthroplasty: a retrospective review.

Background: Proper blood pressure control during surgical procedures such as total joint arthroplasty (TJA) is considered critical to good outcome. There is poor understanding of the pre-operative risk factors for poor intra-operative hemodynamic control. The purpose of this study is to identify risk factors for poor hemodynamic control during TJA.

Preoperative interscalene block for elective shoulder surgery: loss of benefit over early postoperative block after patient discharge to home.

Unlabelled: We performed a randomized, prospective, parallel-group, open-label, multicenter trial to compare the effects of pre- versus postoperative interscalene block using levobupivacaine on postoperative pain and analgesic requirements. One-hundred-two outpatients scheduled for elective shoulder surgery were randomized to receive 30 mL of 0.5% levobupivacaine either preoperatively (PRE group) or postoperatively (POST group).

Coagulation status using thromboelastography in patients receiving warfarin prophylaxis and epidural analgesia.

To determine the coagulation status of patients receiving postoperative warfarin and epidural analgesia using thromboelastography (TEG(R)).Prospective, observational, clinical study.Orthopedic postoperative division at a university hospital.