CPR in the Prone Position
A prone position, which is when the patient is lying on their front, is generally used in the operating room to facilitate surgical access or to optimize oxygenation in patients suffering from severe hypoxic respiratory failure. If patients under mechanical...
Living Without Access to Tertiary Care
Health disparities continue to be an area of concern for physicians, health policy experts, and federal health agencies. The reasons behind their existence are complex and involve many factors. One example of a health disparity is how different populations have more...
Cardiology Procedures in the Outpatient Setting
Major technological, procedural, and pharmacological innovations in the past few decades have transformed the landscape of interventional cardiology, allowing procedures that once required over-night hospital stays to be performed in the outpatient setting [1]. The...
Regional Nerve Blocks for Breast Surgery
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, and the incidence of breast cancer is climbing every year. One of the mainstay treatment approaches for breast cancer is surgery, including breast-sparing lumpectomies, mastectomies and lymph node biopsies,...
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