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Although dexamethasone may be a beneficial adjunct to surgery in terms of its antiemetic and anti-inflammatory effects, a team of researchers from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital has found that it may have a darker side, particularly in diabetic patients. A pilot study concluded that dexamethasone administration was associated with significant postoperative hyperglycemia in these patients […]
Read MoreUnderbody warming blankets ultimately may prove to be a better choice than their overbody counterparts, with respect to both treating and preventing hypothermia, according to a recent study. “A few years have passed since underbody-type blankets were introduced to the market,” began Hiroshi Sumida, MD, a staf f anesthesiologist at the Tohoku University School of […]
Read MoreThe high variability of postoperative pain is thought to partly underlie the discrepancies in results across studies. In a talk titled “Preventing persistent post-surgical pain and promoting opioid cessation after discharge,” given at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, March 15-19, 2017, in Orlando, Florida, Jennifer Hah, MD, MS, an anesthesiologist and […]
Read MoreAllowing children to experience virtually the process of receiving and recovering from an anesthetic is an effective and even enjoyable way for them to learn about the experience, according to investigators from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), in Toronto. Presenting the study at the 2017 meeting of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia/American Academy of […]
Read MoreAlthough general anesthesia is preferred by many anesthesiologists because of a perceived superior safety profile, a study has found that it is no safer than sedation in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). The retrospective trial concluded that compared with sedation, TAVR patients who receive general anesthesia do not have smaller volume requirements, fewer […]
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