Burnout is painful and disheartening in any workplace; in a hospital, it can be a killer. About 1 in 10 doctors reported that they had made a major medical error in the prior three months in a national survey of over 6,000 American doctors just published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Just over half of the doctors surveyed reported […]

Program seeks male donors with Type O-positive blood By Deven Clarke – News Reporter   A unique type of blood transfusion is saving lives of people involved in traumatic accidents in South Texas. A program through the South Texas Blood and Tissue Center called Brothers in Arms is equipping air medical crews with blood to be used for transfusions […]

Henry Jay Przybylo, MD, a pediatric anesthesiologist and associate professor of anesthesiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago, recently published “Counting Backwards: A Doctor’s Notes on Anesthesia,” which is available through W. W. Norton & Company. Dr. Przybylo’s more than three decades of professional experience provides ample material for this look at […]

AUTHORS: Tawfik, Mohamed Mohamed, MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: February 14, 2018 – BACKGROUND: The optimal strategy of fluid administration during spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery is still unclear. Ultrasonography of the inferior vena cava (IVC) has been recently used to assess the volume status and predict fluid responsiveness. In this double-blind, randomized controlled study, we […]

A transition is underway from technology that passively monitors patients to those that actively trigger interventions and even follow patients after discharge. According to Maxime Cannesson, MD, PhD, professor of anesthesiology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the days when medical devices simply provided measurements for clinicians are over as physicians collaborate with […]

By BRANDON A. WEBER A doctor holds a patient’s hand during surgery at the University of Miami Miller school of Medicine hospital-Haiti as they help the people injured during the massive earthquake on January 26, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In a meta-analysis of 22 studies, researchers at the University of Exeter, UK found what many of us […]

I thought this was interesting so I wanted to share it. By: Les Masterson Published on June 11, 2018 Medicare patients who received treatment at an academic medical center (AMC) had lower 30-day mortality rates compared to those at nonteaching hospitals, according to a recent Health Affairs study. This was the case not just for the […]

Health care providers have access to more data than ever, but the challenge is how to draw meaningful conclusions from this information to deliver better care. According to Julian M. Goldman, MD, an anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and medical director of Partners HealthCare Systems Biomedical Engineering, all in Boston, this […]

AUTHORS: Chui, Jason, MBChB, FANZCA et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: July 2018 – Volume 127 – Issue 1 – p 134–143 Perioperative peripheral nerve injury (PNI) is a well-recognized complication of general anesthesia that continues to result in patient disability and malpractice claims. However, the multifactorial etiology of PNI is often not appreciated in malpractice claims […]

Although several studies have identified possible risk factors for poor neurodevelopmental outcomes in children undergoing anesthesia and surgery, few have been able to make definitive associations, given the complex nature of neurodevelopment and the many potential factors that affect it. “The FDA has highlighted some risk factors for neurodevelopmental delay in children,” said George M. […]