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Author: JARED GILMOUR Nearly a dozen Americans who went to Tijuana recently for surgeries from cheaper Mexican hospitals came back with something else: deadly, drug-resistant infections. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns Americans to avoid a specific Mexican hospital and to take precautions so they don’t get infected by the antibiotic-resistant form of the Pseudomonas […]
Read MoreAuthors: Trautmann A et al Contact Dermatitis (Oct 2018) BACKGROUND Anaphylaxis-like reactions developing within a few minutes are the most frequent complications of subcutaneous or submucosal injections of local anaesthetics (LAs), and topically applied LAs are potential contact allergens. In addition, injected LAs have been reported to induce delayed reactions, including local inflammation at the […]
Read MoreAuthor: Ajai Raj Anesthesiology News The current use of IV acetaminophen (Ofirmev, Mallinckrodt) does not improve perioperative opioid utilization in open colectomy compared with the oral form of the drug, leading researchers to conclude that routine use of IV acetaminophen is not supported by the evidence for this procedure. Published in Anesthesiology (2018;129[1]:77-88), the study used national […]
Read MoreAnesthesiology News Case Study Michael J. Benson, MD Department of Anesthesiology University of Utah Health Salt Lake City, Utah Ashley E. Benson, MD Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology University of Utah Health Salt Lake City, Utah James P. Lee, MD Department of Anesthesiology University of Utah Health Salt Lake City, Utah Jeffery D. Porth, MD […]
Read MoreAuthor: Michael Vlessides Anesthesiology News Although recent years have seen marked improvement in the quality and consistency of pain research and reporting, there is still more work to do, according to a Danish research team. Their analysis concluded that although the risk for bias in randomized controlled trials has decreased over the past decade, sample […]
Read MoreThe drugs, tested in mice, show promise as an additional weapon against sepsis Authors: Aaditya Khatri et al Duke Health Cancer drugs are able to halt life-threatening bacterial lung infections in mouse models by promoting lung repair, researchers at Duke Health have found. Reporting in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the […]
Read MoreAuthor: Randy Dotinga, Medpage Today Survey finds shocking 81% say #UsToo More than 80% of female thoracic surgeons said they’d been sexually harassed on the job, most commonly by their superiors, a new study finds. Men reported sexual harassment to a much smaller extent, and they appeared to be less attuned to noticing it at work, […]
Read MoreAuthor: Bob Kronemyer Anesthesiology News A new consensus statement from the Society of Hospital Medicine on improving the safety of opioid prescribing for acute noncancer pain in hospitalized adults also addresses whether to use opioids in such a setting and how to enhance the safety of opioid dispensing at hospital discharge. The statement’s 16 recommendations […]
Read MoreThis is for our readers who treat chronic pain patients. Subcutaneous tanezumab provides significant pain relief and improved function, compared with placebo, in patients with hip or knee osteoarthritis (OA), according to a study presented here at the 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals (ACR/ARHP). Patients in […]
Read MoreI thought this was interesting so I wanted to share it with our readers. Author: Khoshnood A BMC Emergency Medicine 18 (1), 35 (Oct 2018) Supplemental oxygen (O 2 ) therapy in patients with chest pain has been a cornerstone in the treatment of suspected myocardial infarction (MI). Recent randomized controlled trials have, however, shown that […]
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