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Author: Michael Vlessides Anesthesiology News Assessing patient frailty preoperatively is recommended by various practice guidelines, but which instrument should clinicians use? A new study has concluded that the Clinical Frailty Scale is superior to both the Fried Phenotype and Frailty Index when assessing risk for a variety of negative postoperative outcomes. “Frailty has emerged as […]
Read MoreSARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), can remain viable in aerosols for hours and on surfaces for days, according to a correspondence in the New England Journal of Medicine. The virus’s median half-life was about 1 hour as an aerosol. No viable virus was detected after 4 hours on copper, 24 hours on […]
Read MoreAuthor: Michael Vlessides Anesthesiology News Previous research demonstrated the efficacy of the quadratus lumborum block in abdominal surgeries, but a new study has concluded that the block is not effective when used in colorectal surgeries. Researchers concluded that patients receiving the posterior quadratus lumborum block did not need fewer opioids postoperative ly and actually had […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Brandão, Julio C. MD, PhD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: December 2019 – Volume 129 – Issue 6 – p 1564-1573 BACKGROUND: Pneumoperitoneum and nonphysiological positioning required for robotic surgery increase cardiopulmonary risk because of the use of larger airway pressures (Paws) to maintain tidal volume (Vt). However, the quantitative partitioning of respiratory mechanics […]
Read MoreAuthors: Yanshuang Wang et al BMC Anesthesiology volume 20, Article number: 1 (2020) Background To compare the application and efficacy of ropivacaine combined with sufentanil for continuous epidural anesthesia (CEA) and combined spinal-epidural anesthesia (CSEA) in labor analgesia. Methods Three hundred sixty pregnant women requesting labor analgesia from October 2017 to August 2018 were selected retrospectively. According to the anesthetic […]
Read MoreAuthor: Michael Vlessides Anesthesiology News Adherence to a data-driven maximum surgical blood order schedule (MSBOS) for open and radical prostatectomies can help reduce unnecessary preoperative blood orders and procedure-related costs. “Our MSBOS program was inspired by ‘Choosing Wisely,’ which is now an international campaign geared toward decreasing unnecessary medical procedures,” said Mereze Visagie, BA, who […]
Read MoreAuthor: Jason Arunn Murugesu Addiction The Daily Newsletter Far more people in the US may have died from opioids in the past two decades than previously reported, according to a new analysis of unclassified drug deaths carried out using machine-learning algorithms. Elaine Hill and her colleagues at the University of Rochester, New York, were examining data on drug […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Delgado, Carlos MD; Bollag, Laurent MD; Van Cleve, Wil MD, MPH Anesthesia & Analgesia: November 21, 2019 BACKGROUND: Neuraxial analgesia is the gold standard for labor analgesia in the United States, and postdural puncture headache (PDPH) is one of the most common complications. PDPH is frequently treated with an epidural blood patch (EBP), but […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Okamoto, Sakura MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: November 21, 2019 Spontaneous Respiration Versus Controlled Ventilation With Muscle Relaxants BACKGROUND: Airway stenting is a procedure in which a stent is inserted into a stenotic site of the airway. The safest method of ventilation for airway stenting is controversial. A prospective randomized interventional study was […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Bekeris, Janis MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: November 21, 2019 BACKGROUND: Hip fracture patients represent various perioperative challenges related to their significant comorbidity burden and the high incidence of morbidity and mortality. As population trend data remain rare, we aimed to investigate nationwide trends in the United States in patient demographics and outcomes […]
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