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Health Day Sepsis is a life-threatening infection that lands its victims in the hospital, but the dangers don’t end for survivors who have high levels of inflammation long after being discharged, a new study finds. “Sepsis is the leading cause of death among hospitalized patients. Patients discharged from the hospital aren’t out of the woods […]
Read MoreBy Kelly Young The American Thoracic Society has issued new guidelines on evaluating and managing patients with obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS), defined as obesity in the presence of sleep disordered breathing and awake daytime hypercapnia after other causes of hypoventilation are ruled out. The guidelines, published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, […]
Read MoreAuthor: Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press Oklahoma’s $572 million judgment against Johnson & Johnson will likely be followed by more trials and legal settlements seeking to hold a drug company accountable for a U.S. opioid crisis that has ripped apart lives, families and communities. Monday’s ruling could help shape negotiations over roughly 1,500 similar lawsuits filed by state, local and […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Lee J et al Medicine (Baltimore) 98 (18), e15385 (May 2019) BACKGROUND Thoracotomy is one of the most painful surgeries; therefore, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) was developed to reduce the surgical stress of thoracotomy. Although VATS results in reduced postoperative pain compared with thoracotomy, it is still painful. Serratus plane block (SPB) is a […]
Read MoreAUTHOR: Carin A. Hagberg, MD, FASA Anesthesiology News Editor’s note: A key of all abbreviations and acronyms appears below. Management of the difficult airway remains one of the most relevant and challenging clinical situations encountered by anesthesia practitioners, as major adverse consequences can occur if the airway is not secured in a timely fashion. This […]
Read MoreAuthor: Brandon May Spinal anesthetic failure in patients undergoing elective hip and knee joint arthroplasty was associated with younger age, lower body mass index (BMI), needle insertion site, and needle size, according to study results published in Anesthesia & Analgesia. Researchers retrospectively reviewed electronic anesthetic records of elective hip and knee replacements that were performed using spinal anesthesia. […]
Read MoreAuthor: Lisa Rapaport The only liver disease becoming more widespread in the U.S. is one driven by obesity and diabetes, even as other types of liver disorders linked to drinking or hepatitis are becoming less common, researchers say. For the study, researchers examined nationwide health survey data collected in five cycles between 1988 and 2016. […]
Read MoreBy Amy Orciari Herman Most women attending breast screening or evaluation don’t know that alcohol is a risk factor for breast cancer, a BMJ Open study finds. Roughly 200 U.K. women attending screening mammography or breast symptom evaluation, as well as 30 health professionals at these sites, were asked to list risk factors for breast cancer. Only […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Splinter W et al Paediatric Anaesthesia May 2019 BACKGROUND Recent publications from the United States, India and Korea report that children undergoing hypospadias repair with caudal regional anesthesia/analgesia could have increased postoperative surgical complications. AIM The purpose of this retrospective cohort study was to assess the impact between caudal regional anesthesia, other regional anesthesia […]
Read MoreAuthors: Tepper SJ et al. Neurology 2019 Apr 17 Erenumab shows promise in a subgroup analysis of patients with chronic migraine and medication overuse in a phase 2 trial. Chronic migraine (CM) — defined as 15 or more headache days per month — can be difficult to treat. It is often accompanied by medication overuse (MO), […]
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