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Major Anesthesia-Related Events in the 2000s and Beyond

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The dramatic scientific and technologic advances of anesthesia in preceding decades slowed in the 2000s, with maturation of the specialty and associated subspecialties. Certificates attesting expertise in anesthesiology and subspecialities now require or will require recertification. Except for sugammadex, no new anesthesia-related drugs were released for use, and few new drugs are on the horizon. New uses for old drugs were found such as administering ketamine to lessen postoperative dependence on opioids, and substituting intrathecal 2-chloroprocaine for lidocaine to avoid lidocaine-associated transient neurologic syndrome. The 2000s saw technical advances such as the GlideScope, the first of many video-laryngoscopes, and increased adoption of ultrasound-assisted regional anesthesia. Several societies recommended ultrasound guidance for insertion of central venous catheters.

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Notes

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    The Royal College of Physicians and Oxford Brookes University, Medical Sciences Video Archive MSV A 145, Professor Cecil Gray CBE KCSG FRCP FRCS FRCA in interview with Dr Max Blythe, Oxford, 25th November 1996, Interview Two.

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    As Taken from a report [310-3.2] submitted to the ASA House of Delegates on Aug. 21, 2011, by then ASA President Mark Warner, M.D., entitled “Surgical Home Draft Proposal,”.

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    Lawrence J. Saidman MD

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  3. Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Edmond I Eger II MD

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Saidman, L., Westhorpe, R., Eger II, E. (2014). Major Anesthesia-Related Events in the 2000s and Beyond. In: Eger II, E., Saidman, L., Westhorpe, R. (eds) The Wondrous Story of Anesthesia. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8441-7_13

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