Inquiry into PONV researcher Yoshitaka Fujii, MD, finds only three of 212 papers free of fraud
by Adam Marcus
Japanese investigators have concluded that Yoshitaka Fujii, MD, an expert in postoperative nausea and vomiting whose findings drew scrutiny in 2000 but who continued to publish prolifically for a decade after, fabricated his results in...
AIPA has developed an Anaesthetic Consent Form which has been in general use in the hospitals for many years and is simply known as "the Green Form". This form is available for download by members of AIPA free of charge. However, you do need to be a paid-up member of AIPA to avail yourself of this facility.
There is currently a shortage of these...
Airway management experts are hailing a large-scale review of airway-related complications in the United Kingdom as “herculean,” saying it yields important insights into the nature of airway management complications. Based on the results of the Fourth National Audit Project of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Difficult Airway Society (...
The supervising attending comes onto the ward passing the unit secretary, who is texting on her smartphone. She passes the nurse, who is surfing the Web. She then stops to watch the resident, who is gaming on his tablet.
As farcical as it might seem, this digital nightmare is increasingly common on hospital wards throughout the country and the...