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AUTHORS: Si, Xiang, MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: November 2018 – Volume 127 – Issue 5 – p 1157–1164 BACKGROUND: We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies investigating the diagnostic accuracy of respiratory variation in inferior vena cava diameter (ΔIVC) for predicting fluid responsiveness in patients receiving mechanical ventilation. METHODS: MEDLINE, EMBASE, the Cochrane Library, […]
Read MoreAnesthesiology News Pain and the Brain Joseph F. Answine, MD, FASA Clinical Associate Professor Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine Penn State College of Medicine Hershey, Pennsylvania Partner, Riverside Anesthesia Associates Staff Anesthesiologist UPMC Pinnacle Hospital System Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Pain is not only difficult to treat but difficult to understand because it involves many complex […]
Read MoreDoctors already are supposed to screen new mothers for depression, to find those who need prompt care. Now they’re also being urged to identify women at risk — because counseling could prevent depression from setting in. Up to 1 in 7 women experience what’s called perinatal depression, depression during pregnancy or after childbirth, according to […]
Read MoreEven as hospitals try to cut back on prescribing powerful but risky antibiotics for their patients, a new study shows that many of those patients still head home with prescriptions for those same drugs — increasing their risk of everything from “superbug” infections to torn tendons. In fact, the hospitals that said they are actively […]
Read MoreA Retrospective Cohort Study AUTHORS: Yilmaz, Huseyin O., MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: November 2018 – Volume 127 – Issue 5 – p 1129–1136 BACKGROUND: Hypotension compromises local tissue perfusion, thereby reducing tissue oxygenation. Hypotension might thus be expected to promote infection. Hypotension on surgical wards, while usually less severe than intraoperative hypotension, is common and […]
Read MoreBy Ryan Prior, CNN Our long-held notions of boys as being more stoic and girls as being more expressive may lead Americans to overrate the severity of male physical pain. A recent study by psychologists at Yale University found that adults, when presented with imagery of a child’s finger being pricked, considered the child to be […]
Read MoreBy MOHANA RAVINDRANATH Information used to gauge opioid overdose risk is unregulated and used without patient consent. Companies are starting to sell “risk scores” to doctors, insurers and hospitals to identify patients at risk of opioid addiction or overdose, without patient consent and with little regulation of the kinds of personal information used to create the […]
Read MoreAnesthesiology News Kenneth D. Candido, MD Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery Departments of Anesthesiology and Surgery University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, Illinois Teresa M. Kusper, DO, MBS Resident Physician, Department of Anesthesiology Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center Chicago, Illinois There has been growing interest among […]
Read MoreThe 36,527 organ transplants performed in the United States in 2018 set an annual record for the sixth straight year, according to preliminary data from the United Network for Organ Sharing. Since 1988, the first full-year national transplant data were collected, organ transplants have exceeded 750,000. In a press release, UNOS said the number of […]
Read MoreBy Liz Kowalczyk The Boston Globe In 2010, Paul Hawks underwent surgery not because he needed it, but so he could donate most of his liver to a sick brother-in-law. The six-hour operation ended in tragedy when Hawks died on the operating room table at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center. Despite Hawks’s altruistic donation, his brother-in-law, […]
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