APSF News & Updates

Postoperative delirium (POD) is common in older surgical patients and is associated with adverse long-term outcomes, including functional impairment, dementia, and cognitive decline. Whether this association represents causation versus correlation…

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, including large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s GPT series and Meta’s Llama series, have gained currency in many fields, including anesthesiology. LLMs are trained on…

Cardiac surgery is associated with a high risk of mortality, particularly in complex or redo operations. During cardiopulmonary bypass, tissue perfusion and oxygenation are dependent on extracorporeal oxygenation systems (bypass…