Contents
💊 Drugs Used in the Perioperative Period
💨 Inhaled Anesthetics
- Is Inhaled Anesthesia Really “Green”? 😳 ~ Environmental Impact of Anesthetic Gases ~
- Sevo vs Desflurane — Practical Tips for Faster Wakeups and Smoother Mask Inductions🤔
- Minimum Alveolar Concentration (MAC) — Key Concepts😊
💉 intravenous anesthetics
- Propofol Infusion Syndrome (PRIS): A Comprehensive Review for Clinical Practice
- 📌 How to Prevent Propofol Injection Pain: Evidence-Based Strategies and Clinical Pearls
💪 Muscle Relaxants and Monitoring
🩹 Antiplatelet and Anticoagulant Drugs
🫀 Vasoactive Drugs
🩸 Blood Products & Transfusion Complicationas
- Autologous Blood Transfusion Explained: What You Need to Know Before Surgery
- Platelet Transfusion — Why Do We “Shake” Platelet Concentrates?
- Has the FFP thawed yet?🫠
- Red Blood Cell Transfusion (RCC) ~Will the bleeding stop? Surgeon says yes… Anesthesiologist says 🤔~
- What Are Blood Types A, B, O, and AB?
- Type & Screen, Crossmatch, and Antibodies – Can You Explain Them?
- What do the labels “Ir” and “LR” on blood products mean?
❤️ A Bit of Physiology & Monitoring
🫁 Respiratory Physiology & Monitoring
- Functional Residual Capacity (FRC)：What’s “functional” about it?🤔
- Oxygen Saturation – What Many Residents and Nurses Don’t Really Understand😳
🫀 Circulatory Physiology & Monitoring
- Non-invasive Blood Pressure (NIBP) Monitoring
- What Does the Number in Parentheses Next to Blood Pressure Mean?🤔
- Midline Catheters: An Evidence-Based Review of the “Middle” Option Between PIV and PICC
🧠 Central Nervous System Physiology & Monitoring
🤎 Liver Physiology and Liver Dysfunction
- 📌 Preoperative Liver Function Assessment: What You Need to Know
- 📌 VOCAL-Penn Score — Smarter Risk Prediction for Liver Surgery Patients
- 📌 Anesthesia in Liver Disease: Safe Drug Choices and Smart Dosing
❤️🩹 Preoperative Evaluation, Perioperative Complications & Management
✏️ Basics
- ASA Physical Status (ASA-PS): The Preop “Common Language”
- 📌 Quick Tip: ERAS Protocols — How Teamwork Speeds Recovery 🚀
🫁 Respiratory Complications
- What is hypoxia? A Simple Analogy with Apples and a Fruit Shop
- Why Do We Routinely Give Oxygen After General Anesthesia?🤔
- What is “Dead Space”?
- Upper Airway Obstruction = Inspiratory Stridor, Lower Airway Obstruction = Expiratory Wheeze… Why?🤔
- Why Quit Smoking Before Surgery!?🤔
- You know preoperative smoking cessation is necessary — but what about smoking-cessation pharmacotherapies?🤔 – NRT · Varenicline · Bupropion –
- Anesthesia in Asthmatic Patients: The Key Is “Don’t Provoke the Airway”
- 📌 Managing COPD Before Surgery — What You Shouldn’t Miss
- 📌 My Patient Just Got Over a Cold — Is It Safe to Proceed with Anesthesia?🤔
🫀 Cardiovascular Complications
- Pacemakers 101 for Residents & Perioperative Staff
- Hypertension and Anesthesia — What Should We Watch Out For? 🤔
- How far can D-dimer “see” thrombosis?
🍭 Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders
- 📌 Quick-Tip: Perioperative Blood Sugar Management in Diabetic Patients: Striking the Right Balance
- 📌 Quick-Tip: Can You Recall When to Stop Diabetes Meds Before Surgery?🤔
💊 Drug-rerated Complications
- Epinephrine in Anaphylaxis: Why and How?🤔
- When “Red Man Syndrome” Became “Vancomycin Infusion Reaction”— Understanding the renamed reaction and why it matters —🤔
- That “Tingling” Might Be LAST — Recognizing the Early Signs of Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity
- Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity (LAST): What to Do When It Happens
- Rethinking the Stress Dose🤔: Evidence-Based Perioperative Steroid Management in 2025
🤢 Others
- 📌 PACU Discharge Criteria: Safe Transfer from Recovery to Ward
- Designing an “Anti-Emetic Anesthetic”: How to Prevent Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting (PONV)
✨ Anesthesia by Surgical Specialty
💉 Anesthesia Method
🫁 Airway Management, Evaluation & Complications
- Are Difficult Mask Ventilation and Difficult Intubation the Same?🤔
- Endotracheal Intubation – Risks, Esophageal Intubation, and How to Confirm Tube Placement
- When Silence Strikes: Stepwise Management and Prevention of Perioperative Laryngospasm🤔
⚡️ Postoperative Pain Control
🚑 Intensive Care & Mechanical Ventilation
- AHA CPR/ECC Guidelines Updated! -What’s New Since 2020?🤔
- Non-Supine CPR in the OR: An Essential Guide for Prone and Lateral Positions
- How Long Does an Oxygen Cylinder Last? ~ Will It Last an Hour? Oxygen Cylinder Math Made Easy ~
- SOFA-2 Score (2025 Update‼️): Modern Sequential Organ Failure Assessment for ICU
🏥 Others
🦠 Infection Prevention in the Operating Room
- Surgical Antimicrobial Prophylaxis: When, What, and How? 🤔
- Preventing Central Line–Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI/CRBSI)✋😤
☢️ Radiation Protection
- Radiation Protection in the Operating Room and Cath Lab
- What Is Radiation? What Does “Exposure” Mean?
- Radiation Protection: Deterministic vs. Stochastic Effects, Equivalent and Effective Dose
- Radiation Dose, Effects, and Dose Limits: Effective vs Equivalent Dose
- What’s the Difference Between Sievert(Sv) and Gray(Gy)?🤔