Need a help finding a new subject for an anesthesia essay!

[Salah]

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Hello there..

I am searching currently the web for a new anesthesia title to do an essay requested from me, any idea about a new interesting subject or any web sites with updates about anesthesia/post operative ICU..

Help is much appreciated, thanks

 

[fakin' the funk]

I am searching currently the web for a new anesthesia title to do an essay requested from me, any idea about a new interesting subject or any web sites with updates about anesthesia/post operative ICU..

If your net includes ICU there are literally hundreds of topics you could do. Go to www.ccmtutorials.com for a taste.

For anesthesia...how about POCD? Fluid therapy? That's just two...I'm tired. Pick up a copy of Anesthesiology or Anesthesia & Analgesia and browse for some current topics. Good luck.

 

[DO4lifer]

for a length political editorial, you could write about how nurses are trying to go outside their scope of practice as some CRNAs are trying to become physicians without going to medical school/residency.

or a popular thought story on how opiates work, their effects on the body, and both their uses and abuses.

or maybe a historical piece on the story of anesthesiology from its roots many many years ago...

 

[Salah]

If your net includes ICU there are literally hundreds of topics you could do. Go to www.ccmtutorials.com for a taste.

For anesthesia...how about POCD? Fluid therapy? That's just two...I'm tired. Pick up a copy of Anesthesiology or Anesthesia & Analgesia and browse for some current topics. Good luck.

thx fakin for the help, about POCD, I think this one is a good one but wouldn't it need more info from neurology/psychiatric branch to be covered? that would make me shift a little away from anesthesia!!

 

[Mista Suprane]

opiates

Morphine-6-Glucuronide (M6G)

 

[fakin' the funk]

thx fakin for the help, about POCD, I think this one is a good one but wouldn't it need more info from neurology/psychiatric branch to be covered? that would make me shift a little away from anesthesia!!

Yea it would, but it's a new(ish) and sexy topic within anesthesia.

If it was me, I'd do severe sepsis/septic shock. Or, acute coagulopathy of trauma, Brohi and Pittet are two authors in that field.

 

[panetrain]

Is this for the essay contest for the Anesthesia History Association that will be presented at the ASA this year? If so, I have been wanting to enter this contest but simply do not have the time. My essay was going to highlight the history of the anesthesiologist-derived lethal injection. I think the initial lethal injection formula was derived by a prior chair at the U. of Oklahoma, Dept. of Anesthesiology. This topic has current interest as well due to a few recent botched (infiltrated IV's) injections. There has been much discussion regarding the use of anesthesiologists to administer the lethal injection.

Yea it would, but it's a new(ish) and sexy topic within anesthesia.

If it was me, I'd do severe sepsis/septic shock. Or, acute coagulopathy of trauma, Brohi and Pittet are two authors in that field.

 

[proman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_injection

In 1977, Oklahoma's state medical examiner, Jay Chapman, proposed a new, 'more humane' method of execution, known as Chapman's Protocol: "An intravenous saline drip shall be started in the prisoner's arm, into which shall be introduced a lethal injection consisting of an ultra-short-acting barbiturate in combination with a chemical paralytic."[4] After being approved by anesthesiologist Stanley Deutsch, Reverend Bill Wiseman introduced the method[5] into the Oklahoma legislature where it passed and was quickly adopted (Title 22, Section 1014(A)). Since then, thirty-seven of the thirty-eight states using capital punishment have introduced lethal injection statutes.[4] On 7 December 1982, Texas became the first state to use lethal injection to carry out capital punishment, for the execution of Charles Brooks, Jr..[6]

 

[Salah]

Actually this essay isn't for the ASA contest. its required in my post graduate studies.

Yea it would, but it's a new(ish) and sexy topic within anesthesia.

Well I showed that one to my supervisor and she answered that this subject is a tiny one and she does need a bulky one

 

[Gern Blansten]

Actually this essay isn't for the ASA contest. its required in my post graduate studies.



Well I showed that one to my supervisor and she answered that this subject is a tiny one and she does need a bulky one

Then your instructor is obviously not very smart. Did she really say she wanted a "bulky" topic? Obviously, she will just be counting how many words in the essay to determine the grade. Give her what she wants. The topic I would choose is "anesthesia for humans." Is that "bulky" enough for her?

There is plenty of subject matter to write an extensive paper on POCD. Sounds like she wants quantity over quality.

 

[fakin' the funk]

The topic I would choose is "anesthesia for humans." Is that "bulky" enough for her?

How about, "Anesthesia for bulky humans"

 

[Gern Blansten]

How about, "Anesthesia for bulky humans"

even better.

 

[Salah]

Then your instructor is obviously not very smart. Did she really say she wanted a "bulky" topic? Obviously, she will just be counting how many words in the essay to determine the grade. Give her what she wants. The topic I would choose is "anesthesia for humans." Is that "bulky" enough for her?

There is plenty of subject matter to write an extensive paper on POCD. Sounds like she wants quantity over quality.

May be she hasn't updated herself about that subject enough to realize that it does worth to get some light on it in an essay!! Hopefully she isn't reading this forum otherwise I may go for a vacation 😛

Well, any other new interesting titels, I keep searching and she keeps refusing 😕

 

[Licoricestick]

Well, any other new interesting titels, I keep searching and she keeps refusing 😕

If you're after controverial you could try reviewing the evidence on fasting/RSIs/cricoid pressure/reduction of aspiration risk (there are also some great discussions on this forum along those lines - starting with JET'S SERIOUSLY SERIOUS NPO ISSUES 101).

Reversal of NMBs eg: always reverse vs selective reversal, full dose vs half dose, drug choice for reversal etc. And you could touch on the up and coming new toys - cyclodextrins. Gives you a mainstream clinical anaesthesia topic with phys and pharm that should be "bulky" enough.

 

[Bertelman]

May be she hasn't updated herself about that subject enough to realize that it does worth to get some light on it in an essay!! Hopefully she isn't reading this forum otherwise I may go for a vacation 😛

Well, any other new interesting titels, I keep searching and she keeps refusing 😕

Try asking for a couple of examples, to give you an idea of what she is looking for.

I use this successfully with my wife when she tells me I don't contribute enough with the housework. 👍

 

[Salah]

I thought about one interesting subject that may work, it is about: How To Chose The Suitable Anesthesia Procedure For Every Patient?. I think she may accept that one if I would show it to her, but I just need to know the available papers/text books/web sites that talk about this subject to help me get papers about it if i would go for it. Any clue about that please?