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Guidelines, Guidelines everywhere…Is optimal cardiac arrest care determined by continent?
Part One 
Part Two
Myron Yaster MD, Justin Lockman MD MSEd, Jayant K Deshpande MD

Original article
Buis ML, Turner NM. New European Resuscitation Council guidelines for pediatric life support and their implications for pediatric anesthesia: An educational article. Paediatr Anaesth. 2022 Apr;32(4):497-503. PMID: 34964208

SPA’s checklists and PediCrisis App align with the American Heart Association PALS guidelines.  We highlight some important differences with new European resuscitation guidelines.

Seeking Job Security? Consider A Career in Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology!
Susan C. Nicolson MD and Lindsey Loveland-Baptist MD

Original article
Nasr VG, Staffa SJ, Vener DF, Huang S, Brown ML, Twite M, Miller-Hance WC, DiNardo JA. The Practice of Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology in the United States   Anesth Analg 2022; 134: 532-9 PMID: 35180170

Increased survival of patients with CHD coupled with a current inadequate aging work force puts the subspecialty of pediatric congenital cardiac anesthesiology at considerable risk for being short staffed for the foreseeable future.

Atelectasis and lung recruitment during thoracic CT scanning
Myron Yaster MD and Melissa Brooks Peterson MD

Original article
Bruins S, Sommerfield D, Powers N, von Ungern-Sternberg BS. Atelectasis and lung recruitment in pediatric anesthesia: An educational review. Paediatr Anaesth. 2022 Feb;32(2):321-329 PMID: 34797011

Melissa and Myron had major disagreements about the recommendations from this article.