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Covid again (still)
Myron Yaster, MD and Lynne G. Maxwell, MD

Original articles
Jerry Y Chao, Ariel Sugarman, Atsumi Kimura, et al. Factors Associated With Hospitalization in Children and Adolescents With SARS-CoV-2 Infection.  Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2021 Nov 18;99228211059883. PMID: 34789028

Rita Saynhalath, Gijo Alex, Proshad N Efune, Peter Szmuk, et al. Anesthetic Complications Associated With Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in Pediatric Patients.  Anesth Analg. 2021 Aug 1;133(2):483-490. PMID: 33886516

Pediatric preoperative fasting guidelines
Libby (Elizabeth) Elliott, MD and Rebecca Isserman, MD

Original Article
Frykholm P, Disma N, Andersson H, et al. Preoperative fasting in children: guideline from the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care. Eur J Anaesthesiol 2022; 39:4–25.

Forget “6-4-3-2” think “4-3-1”.

Prescription Opioid Ecosystem
Myron Yaster, MD and Elliot J. Krane, MD

Special article
Evan D Kharasch, J David Clark, Jerome M Adams. Opioids and Public Health: The Prescription Opioid Ecosystem and Need for Improved Management. Anesthesiology. 2022 Jan 1;136(1):10-30. PMID: 34874401

“it is abundantly clear that current approaches to the opioid crisis are not succeeding.”