Major Anesthesia-Related Events in the 2000s and Beyond

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