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Author: Glenn Murphy, MD Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Careful intraoperative management of neuromuscular blockade may optimize patient recovery and improve postoperative outcomes. Four important articles in the February 2016 APSF Newsletter described why postoperative residual neuromuscular blockade (PRNB) was an important patient safety issue, and how appropriate dosing, monitoring, and reversal of neuromuscular blocking agents could reduce […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Mahanna-Gabrielli, Elizabeth MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: June 2020 – Volume 130 – Issue 6 – p 1516-1523 BACKGROUND: Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) and delirium are the most common perioperative cognitive complications in older adults undergoing surgery. A recent study of cardiac surgery patients suggests that physical frailty is a risk factor for […]
Read MoreAuthors: Josef Briegel, M.D. et al Anesthesiology November 2020, Vol. 133, 997–1006. Background In most patients having noncardiac surgery, blood pressure is measured with the oscillometric upper arm cuff method. Although the method is noninvasive and practical, it is known to overestimate intraarterial pressure in hypotension and to underestimate it in hypertension. A high-fidelity upper arm […]
Read MoreAuthor: Denise Baez DG Alerts Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has a prolonged and nonspecific disease course during pregnancy and in the 6 weeks after pregnancy, according to a study published in Obstetrics & Gynecology. Although the majority of the symptomatic women in the study who tested positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) had […]
Read MoreAuthor: Denise Baez DG Alert Patients with mild to moderate coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are highly unlikely to be infectious after day 10 of symptom onset, however, patients with severe disease may shed the virus for a longer period of time, according to a study published in the Journal of Infection. The findings come from […]
Read MoreAuthor: David J. Cullen MD, MS Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation SUMMARY:In patients who are anesthetized for surgery in the beach chair position, brain blood pressure can fall to levels below the brain’s ability to autoregulate. This can result in brain damage, but an understanding of cerebral autoregulation is essential to prevent this occurrence. Cerebral blood […]
Read MoreAuthors: Orser, Beverley A. MD, PhD Anesthesia & Analgesia: May 2020 – Volume 130 – Issue 5 – p 1109-1110 Health care workers are committed to learning from each other to optimize the management of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses recently called […]
Read MoreASA Joint Statement of the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology, American Society of Anesthesiologists, Society for Pediatric Anesthesia, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine The Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP), the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA), the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the Society for Maternal-Fetal […]
Read MoreAuthor: Shazia Qureshi DG News In a small, double-blinded randomised study of male patients with chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS), 6 sessions of low-intensity shockwave therapy (LiST) applied to the perineum once per week led to improvements in pain and quality of life scores over 24 weeks, compared with sham therapy, according to a study […]
Read MoreThis has nothing to do with anesthesia other than we have providers who have had a MI. Author: Michael Walter Cardiovascular Business News Resuming sexual activity within a few months of an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is associated with a significant increase in long-term survival, according to new research published in the European Journal of Preventive […]
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