Diabetes Mellitus is an Independent Predictor of Spinal Cord Injury After Descending Thoracic and Thoracoabdominal Aneurysm Repair: Maximum Likelihood Conditional Regression in a Propensity-Score Matched Cohort.

Objective: To discern the impact of diabetes mellitus (DM) on spinal cord injury (SCI) after open descending thoracic and thoracoabdominal aneurysm repair (DTAAAR).

Background: Compared with euglycemia, hyperglycemia, and ketosis make neurons respectively more vulnerable and more resilient to ischemia.

Methods: During the study period (1997-2021), patient who underwent DTAAAR were dichotomized according to the presence/absence of DM.

Global health education in United States anesthesiology residency programs: a survey of resident opportunities and program director attitudes.

Background: Interest in global health during postgraduate residency training is increasing across medical specialties, and multiple disciplines have categorized global health training opportunities in their arena. No such cataloging exists for anesthesiology residency programs. The aim of this study was to assess and characterize global health opportunities and the attitudes of program directors (PDs) in U.

Viscoelastic testing inside and beyond the operating room.

Hemorrhage is a major contributor to morbidity and mortality during the perioperative period. Current methods of diagnosing coagulopathy have various limitations including long laboratory runtimes, lack of information on specific abnormalities of the coagulation cascade, lack of applicability, and lack of ability to guide the transfusion of blood products. Viscoelastic testing offers a promising solution to many of these problems.