Junior Recital, Indy Bennett and Skylar Novak, percussion

Junior RecitalIndy Bennett, percussionSkylar Novak, percussionTuesday, April 29, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. Sonia Vlahcevic Concert HallW.E. Singleton Center for the Performance Arts922 Park Avenue | Richmond, VirginiaThe presentation of this junior recital will fulfill in part the requirements for Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education and the Bachelor of Music degree in Performance. Indy Bennett and Skylar Novak study percussion with Dr. Justin Alexander

Damaged Goods

I’m ready to go back now // to a place that’s far away- Short poem about home, and returning to it

VCU Guitar Ensemble

VCU Guitar Ensembledirected by David ToussaintTuesday, April 22, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.Recital HallJames W. Black Music Center1015 Grove Avenue | Richmond, VirginiaEnsemble MembersSimon BarrettMason BerdecioJosh HuddleNate JohnsonAidan McMullanRyelyn NordengAlex Turne

Commonwealth Times 2025-02-12

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Utilizing EPIC to Improve Efficiency of Pre-anesthesia Evaluations for Surgical Patients

Background: Preoperative anesthesia evaluations of elective procedures are important to anesthesia care and imperative to prevent postoperative complications and unnecessary surgical cancellations¹. Triaging cases are complex, requiring clinical skills to facilitate the process. Triaging is cumbersome and, in most organizations, done manually. In 2021, our healthcare institution transitioned to EPIC² and formed a team of anesthesiologists, surgeons, informaticists, and EPIC analysts to automate the triage process which was nonexistent. Purpose: Utilizing EPIC logic and a surgical risk classification (SRC) (Table 1) developed by the team cases are triaged as high, medium, or low. The SRC is based on blood loss, length of procedure and potential for hemodynamic instability and assigned upon case request. In turn, a 30-day surgical case report is generated for in-person scheduling of high-risk cases. For medium and low risk, a score is calculated based on the SRC and specific risk factors based on SNOMED³ CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms) codes (Table 2). These risk factors are analyzed based on the problem list and questionnaire. An Advanced Practice Provider (APP) triage report is generated in EPIC for low and medium-risk cases. Medium-risk with a score of one or above are auto-assigned an in-person visit. An APP triages the low-risk and medium-risk (score of 0) to either a phone screen or in-person visit after a comprehensive chart review. In addition, high-alert medications such as anticoagulants, Glucagon-like Peptides, and Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 Inhibitors are displayed on the triage report to facilitate early triaging, so medications can be held in a timely manner. Results: Automation of the triage process has been effective at reducing the manual work. There was an increase in the number of APP triages completed (Table 3) from 200-300 to 500-800 range. Conclusion: This triage process is not without flaws and has required ongoing enhancements with the latest being collaborating with medical colleagues to ensure medical histories are up to date

CANNABIS USE AMONG CANCER SURVIVORS AND THE IMPACT ON CANCER-RELATED PAIN

With a growing population of older adult cancer survivors—many of whom experience cancer-related pain—interest in medical cannabis as a pain management strategy has increased. This secondary analysis used data from the 2022 U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) to examine cannabis use behaviors among cancer survivors and assess associations with cancer-related pain. The study had three aims: (1) to describe 30-day cannabis use (prevalence, intensity, and administration routes) by chronic health condition and cancer diagnosis, focusing on non-melanoma skin cancer, melanoma, and other cancers; (2) to compare demographics, health characteristics, and tobacco use by cannabis use status among cancer survivors; and (3) to assess whether cannabis use was linked to cancer-related pain. Weighted descriptive, bivariate, and logistic regression analyses were conducted. Overall, 15.9% of respondents (n=12,429) reported past 30-day cannabis use, with use highest among those with chronic health conditions (excluding cancer) and lowest among cancer survivors. Non-melanoma skin cancer survivors had significantly lower cannabis use intensity than those with other chronic conditions. Cancer survivors also reported lower use of smoke, vape, and dab methods. Among survivors, current cannabis use was associated with certain demographics, poorer perceived health, and current tobacco use. Adjusted models showed that both current cannabis use and poorer health status were significantly associated with cancer-related pain. These findings highlight the importance of understanding cannabis use patterns among cancer survivors and their potential implications for pain management

Junior Recital, Danny Dupes, trombone

Junior RecitalDanny Dupes, jazz trombonewith Minjee Jang, piano; Thomas Windley, guitar;Jack Byrnes, bass; Charles Brown, drumsTuesday, April 29, 2025 at 3:30 p.m.Recital HallJames W. Black Music Center1015 Grove Avenue | Richmond, VirginiaThe presentation of this junior recital will fulfill in part the requirements for the Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Studies. Danny Dupes studies jazz trombone with Shannon Gunn

Junior Recital, Heidi Marle, violin

Junior recitalHeidi Marle, violinCharles Lindsey, pianoTuesday, April 29, 2025 at 3:00 p.m.Recital HallJames W. Black Music Center1015 Grove Avenue | Richmond, VirginiaThe presentation of this junior recital will fulfill in part the requirements of the Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education. Heidi Marle studies violin with Prof. Susanna Klein

Orb Weaver

Orb Weaver is a 24-minute experimental video/lm. This essay does not explain its meaning, as viewers should feel the power to trust their own interpretations. Instead, it reflects on the process of making the lm interwoven with autobiographical thoughts

Bird\u27s Eye

Bird’s Eye is a collection of personal essays, and Vessels for Sounds of the Ocean is a novel excerpt. The YA novel-in-progress follows Avery Johnson, a nonbinary fourteen-year-old with rapidly progressing scoliosis, as they harness the power of their best friend’s pet sea monster to erase memories of their spine doctor’s ongoing sexual abuse. A queer coming-of-age story, this novel strives to bring a trans lens to narratives about disability, trauma, and grief—to define characters beyond their queerness and disability alone. In Bird’s Eye, personal essays consider the ways in which transness, disability, and chronic illness intersect in the body. Essays return to the concept of inversion—the ways in which others perceive the speaker’s gender as an absence of femininity, rather than a vibrant presence itself. Weaving in research—from peregrine falcons and tree leaf patterns to vampire stories and hotel ghosts—essays turn to the outside world to tell the story of a body in flux