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Author: Nancy Shaw DG News Patients receiving continuous infusion of ketamine in the intensive care unit (ICU) show significant improvement in the amount of time spent in goal ranges of pain and sedation, without increases in delirium, according to a study presented here at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Society of Critical Care Medicine […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Scala, Emmanuelle MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: February 24, 2020 BACKGROUND: Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) can put cardiac surgery patients at a high risk of lethal complications. If anti-PF4/heparin antibodies (anti-PF4/Hep Abs) are present, 2 strategies exist to prevent intraoperative aggregation during bypass surgery: first, using an alternative anticoagulant, and second, using heparin combined […]
Read MoreBy Ivanhoe Broadcast News This year, one in three women will give birth by c-section. Most of these new moms will be sent home with opioids to help control the pain. Now doctors are working to cut back on the need for those highly addictive drugs, replacing them with something just as powerful but not habit-forming. […]
Read MoreMedical News Today By mapping interactions between human proteins and the new coronavirus, researchers have pinpointed 29 potential treatments using drugs already approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a wide range of other conditions. There is currently no vaccine or antiviral drug with proven efficacy against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, […]
Read MoreAuthor: Michael Vlessides Anesthesiology News Increased intraoperative opioid administration was associated with the occurrence of postoperative delirium in elderly patients undergoing outpatient surgery, according to a team of Rush University Medical Center researchers. Of note, the study found that neither preoperative risk factors nor the use of intraoperative agents such as vasopressors, benzodiazepines, anticholinergics, dexamethasone […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Masaru Kikuchi et al PubMed.gov BACKGROUND Appropriate pain management is essential to improve the postoperative recovery after total hip arthroplasty (THA). Various case reports have indicated that anterior quadratus lumborum block (QLB) provides effective postoperative analgesia in lower limb surgeries. However, few randomized controlled trials have confirmed the efficacy of anterior QLB for lower […]
Read MoreAnesthesiology News Allgrove Syndrome: What Is It? Allgrove syndrome, also known as triple A syndrome, is an inherited condition that encompasses achalasia; addisonianism, which is primary adrenal insufficiency; and alacrima, which is insufficient tear secretion. The syndrome was first identified by Jeremy Allgrove and his colleagues in 1978; it is a rare autosomal recessive congenital […]
Read MoreAuthor: James P. Noble, MD Anesthesiology News Background In anesthesia practice, “during the late 1970s and early 1980s, the precordial stethoscope was the only useful continuous patient monitor.”1 Upon entering an anesthesia training program, residents were given a custom-molded earpiece that they wore everywhere, proudly pinned to their scrub tops. Then, in the mid-1980s, monitoring […]
Read MoreBy Kelly Young Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD, and André Sofair, MD, MPH A triple therapy that includes interferon β-1b shortened the duration of viral shedding in patients with novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), according to a phase 2 randomized trial in the Lancet. Roughly 125 adults in Hong Kong who were hospitalized for COVID-19 were randomized to receive […]
Read MoreSource: University of Surrey Science Daily Summary: Researchers have identified a link between the COVID-19 cure rate and regional selenium status in China. An international team of researchers, led by Professor Margaret Rayman at the University of Surrey, has identified a link between the COVID-19 cure rate and regional selenium status in China. Publishing their […]
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