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Author: Joe Carlson Minnesota Star Tribune 3M Co. declared legal victory Thursday after a federal judge dismissed lawsuits from more than 5,000 plaintiffs who said 3M’s Bair Hugger patient-warming device caused their post-surgical infections. “There is no legitimate scientific support for the plaintiffs’ theory,” Dr. Todd Fruchterman, general manager at 3M’s medical solutions business, said in […]
Read MoreEurekAlert JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH Elevated risk of this common arterial disease lasts 30 years after quitting smoking A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that cigarette smoking boosts the risk of peripheral artery disease, and this elevated risk can persist up […]
Read MoreAuthor: Frank Opelka, MD, FACS American College of Surgeons Conventional wisdom is that doctors — and especially surgeons — do not want to bundle health care. Under the right circumstances in support of surgical excellence, the American College of Surgeons (ACS) supports team-based care and alternative payment systems that appropriately measure quality and value and assign […]
Read MoreAuthor: Ayla Ellison Becker’s Hospital Review Brentwood, Tenn.-based Comprehensive Pain Specialists, three of its principal owners, its former CEO and a chiropractor are accused of engaging in a false billing scheme that defrauded Medicare and Tennessee’s Medicaid program of $25 million, according to the Department of Justice. The details of the alleged scheme are included […]
Read MoreBY MARK GILLISPIE AP Newly released federal data shows how drugmakers and distributors increased shipments of opioid painkillers across the U.S. as the nation’s addiction crisis accelerated from 2006 to 2012. The data, released this week by a federal court in Ohio as part of a far-reaching opioids case, shows that companies distributed 8.4 billion hydrocodone […]
Read MoreBy Amy Orciari Herman Preoperative albuterol helps prevent adverse respiratory events in children undergoing tonsillectomy, according to a JAMA Pediatrics study. Some 480 children aged 8 years or younger who were undergoing tonsillectomy under general anesthesia were randomized to receive inhaled albuterol or placebo roughly 20 minutes before surgery. Children with cardiopulmonary disease were excluded. […]
Read MoreWritten by Rachel Popa Anesthesia Business Consultants Key performance indicators can help ASCs measure how their anesthesia provider’s performance measures up, according to Alpharetta, Ga.-based Surgical Information Systems. Three KPIs to track: 1. Normothermia. This KPI tracks whether a patient’s temperature is out of the normal range. 2. Postoperative nausea and vomiting. Examining this KPI and decreasing […]
Read MoreBY AMY GUNIA Time Surgeons announced on Monday that they have separated conjoined twin sisters after multiple surgeries that took more than 50 hours to complete. Two-year-old Safa and Marwa Ullah underwent three surgeries carried out between October 2018 and February this year at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, according to the Guardian. The sisters, who hail from […]
Read MoreKaiser Health News Health insurers that treat millions of seniors have overcharged Medicare by nearly $30 billion the past three years alone, but federal officials say they are moving ahead with long-delayed plans to recoup at least part of the money. Officials have known for years that some Medicare Advantage plans overbill the government by exaggerating how […]
Read MoreBy Amy Orciari Herman Longer durations of postoperative antibiotic prophylaxis are associated with increasing risks for acute kidney injury and Clostridium difficile infection — without preventing more surgical-site infections — according to a retrospective study in JAMA Surgery. Researchers examined outcomes in nearly 80,000 veterans who underwent cardiac, colorectal, vascular, or total joint replacement procedures […]
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