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The ASA PS Classification System
Myron Yaster MD and Jim Fehr MD
Original and Review articles
Balazs Horvath, Benjamin Kloesel, Michael M Todd, Daniel J Cole, Richard C Prielipp. The Evolution, Current Value, and Future of the American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status Classification System. Anesthesiology. 2021 Nov 1;135(5):904-919. PMID: 34491303
Ferrari LR, Leahy I, Staffa SJ, Johnson C, Crofton C, Methot C, Berry JG. One Size Does Not Fit All: A Perspective on the American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status Classification for Pediatric Patients. Anesth Analg. 2020 Jun;130(6):1685-1692. PMID: 31219919
Ferrari L, Leahy I, Staffa SJ, Berry JG. The Pediatric-Specific American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status Score: A Multicenter Study. Anesth Analg. 2021 Mar 1;132(3):807-817. PMID: 32665468
A history and update on ASA PS classification system.
Association Is Not Causation
Viviane Nasr MD, Susan Nicolson MD, Lindsey Loveland Baptist MD, James DiNardo MD
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Justin B Long, Branden M Engorn, Kevin D Hill, Liqi Feng, Karen Chiswell, Marshall L Jacobs, Jeffrey P Jacobs, Dheeraj Goswami. Postoperative Hematocrit and Adverse Outcomes in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society Database Collaboration. Anesth Analg. 2021 Nov 1;133(5):1077-1088. PMID: 33721876
EDITORIAL
David Faraoni, James A DiNardo. Red Blood Cell Transfusion and Adverse Outcomes in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Patients: Where Does the Blame Lie? Anesth Analg. 2021 Nov 1;133(5):1074-1076. PMID: 34673720
This review by Viviane Nasr MD, Susan Nicolson MD, LIndsey Loveland Baptist MD, and James DiNardo MD discuss the importance of patient blood management in pediatric cardiac patients.
Remembering the Classics: Chronic Respiratory Failure in Infants
Mark Schreiner MD and John J. (“Jack”) Downes MD
Original Article
Schreiner MS, Downes JJ, Kettrick RG, Ise C, Voit R. Chronic respiratory failure in infants with prolonged ventilator dependency. JAMA 1987 18;258(23). PMID: 3682138
The background to this historic paper by its original authors Drs. Mark Schreiner and Jack Downes.
