Read the 2024 Edition of Vital Times!
Represent Your Peers on CSA’s House of Delegate – Nominations Now Open
By Philip Levin, MD, FASA The 2023 election season kicked off last week and it’s your chance to get involved in CSA’s leadership. Each year CSA launches an open nomination period for representatives of the geographic districts and mode-of-practice forums. If you are looking for an opportunity to engage with CSA or taking a new […]
CSA President’s Impact Awards
By Ed Mariano, MD, MAS, FASA In the last CSAOF, Drs. Jane Moon and Ron Pearl introduced some of the celebratory events planned for this year’s 75th anniversary of CSA, including the 1st annual CSA President’s Impact Awards. This is an important new initiative developed by the CSA Membership Committee and other CSA leaders, and […]
Happy 75th Anniversary, CSA!
By Jane Moon, MD, and Ronald Pearl, MD, PhD, FASA The year 2023 marks the 75th anniversary, or Diamond Jubilee, of the California Society of Anesthesiologists (CSA). In 1948, the year of its founding, CSA had just over 200 members. Today, we have over 3,000 active members. Throughout the years, CSA has remained a powerful […]
CSA Global Health Committee: Member Spotlight
By CSA Committee on Global Health The World Health Organization defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”.1 The CSA Committee on Global Health serves to explore opportunities for positive impact on the care of patients, inform CSA members of opportunities, and […]
Virtual House of Delegates Meeting Recap
In 2017, CSA began hosting a second House of Delegates meeting in November, after we changed the society’s budget year from a July-June fiscal year to a January-December calendar year. This change was made to align with ASA’s membership cycle after CSA adopted the unified dues billing agreement with the ASA, whereby members receive one […]
Uncuffing the Legacy of Arthur Guedel’s Cuffed Endotracheal Tube
Dr. Jordan Francke, a CA-2 resident at UCLA, was born in Kentucky and raised in Maine. He is an avid marathoner, hiker, and lover of history. October 4, 1928 Arthur Guedel MD (Beverly Hills, CA) to Ralph Waters MD (Madison, WI) “It was my first case at St. Vincents Hospital, the young wife of one […]
Perioperative Ultrasound Training in Anesthesiology: Challenges and New Opportunities
As ultrasound machines have become smaller, more affordable, and more widely available, sonography is no longer a skill confined to cardiologists and radiologists. Point-of-Care Ultrasonography (POCUS) has become an effective tool to guide invasive procedures and perioperative decision making. The use of focused cardiac ultrasound can help identify cardiac pathology missed by clinical exam alone […]
Member Spotlight: Meet Rita Agarwal, MD, FAAP, FASA
In recognition of the many major accomplishments by women in anesthesia, CSA is highlighting a variety of women leaders who practice throughout the state, bringing their diverse backgrounds and life perspectives into their work, taking purposeful steps to create pathways for mentorship and sponsorship, and helping support the clinical and research work that is being […]
As Physicians We Need to Learn to Take Better Care of Each Other
I first met Jing when she was a first-year medical student at the orientation session for new members of the Paul Hom Asian Clinic in Sacramento, California. She was enthusiastic about becoming a doctor and very passionate about learning how to take care of patients. She studied hard and volunteered many of her weekends during […]
