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By Amy Orciari Herman NEJM Journal Watch Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP, FHM Check out some of the latest COVID-19 news: Pooling patient samples: A modeling study in JAMA Network Open supports the feasibility of pool testing for COVID-19. With pool testing, samples from several patients are combined and tested at once […]
Read MoreAuthors: Gisèle Pickering, M.D., Ph.D., D.Pharm. et al Anesthesiology 7 2020, Vol.133, 154-164. Background: Ketamine is often used for the management of refractory chronic pain. There is, however, a paucity of trials exploring its analgesic effect several weeks after intravenous administration or in association with magnesium. The authors hypothesized that ketamine in neuropathic pain may provide pain […]
Read MoreAuthor: Stephen Freiberg, MD Yahoo!Life Want to know how an anesthesiologist can make birthing another human more tolerable? Then allow me to address one of the areas where I receive the most questions, both from patients but also friends and families: epidurals. Specifically, lumbar epidurals. More specifically, lumbar epidural catheters. Even more specifically, lumbar epidural catheters for labor. […]
Read MoreAuthor:Tony Mira Summary COVID continues to have an impact on anesthesia practices. A review of our clients’ case volumes during the pandemic provides a picture of disparity, with some groups still grappling with the effects of the virus and others ramping back up to near normal case levels. This article provides insight on the current […]
Read MoreAuthor: Denise Baez DG Alert Post-mortem brain and pulmonary findings from patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-2019) have been detailed in 2 separate case studies. The first case series, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, showed hypoxic-ischaemic changes, but no encephalitis, meningitis, strokes, or changes in olfactory bulbs or tracts in the brains of 18 consecutive […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Wang, Shen-Chih MD, PhD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: May 2020 – Volume 130 – Issue 5 – p 1244-1254 BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular waveforms contain information for clinical diagnosis. By learning and organizing the subtle change of waveform morphology from large amounts of raw waveform data, unsupervised manifold learning helps delineate a high-dimensional structure and […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Mazzeffi, Michael A. MD, MPH, MSc et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: May 2020 BACKGROUND: Over 6 million esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) procedures are performed in the United States each year. Patients having anesthesia for advanced EGD procedures, such as interventional procedures, are at high risk for hypoxemia. METHODS: Our primary study aim was to evaluate whether […]
Read MoreThis is important since many of readers will place them. Author: Michael Walter Cardiovascular Business News Vascular Solutions is recalling all Langston Dual Lumen Catheters distributed from July 12, 2019, to March 10, 2020. The catheter is used for the delivery of contrast material into a patient’s blood vessels during medical imaging examinations. The recall […]
Read MoreAuthor: Josh Sandberg OrthoSpine News A study comparing short-term outcomes of minimally invasive (MI) lumbar decompression surgery to MI lumbar spine fusion surgery found no statistically significant difference in the amount of time patients needed to return to work. Researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York City also found that patients in […]
Read MoreCBS News A genetic analysis of COVID-19 patients suggests that blood type might influence whether someone develops severe disease. Scientists who compared the genes of thousands of patients in Europe found that those who had Type A blood were more likely to have severe disease while those with Type O were less likely. Wednesday’s report in the […]
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