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DG Journal Club AUTHORS: Sydney L Moseley, Christopher Heine et al. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol. 2021 Jan; 140 110515 OBJECTIVES To evaluate the overall perioperative times among pediatric patients undergoing adenotonsillectomy (AT) who, in the perioperative period, received either parental presence at induction of anesthesia (PPIA), midazolam, both, or neither. METHODS A retrospective chart review […]
Read MoreBy Christine Judge Edited by André Sofair, MD, MPH, and William E. Chavey, MD, MS NEJM Journal Watch Parental medical use of prescription opioids confers excess risk for their adolescents’ medical use and misuse of prescription opioids, according to a study in JAMA Network Open. Some 15,000 pairs of U.S. parents and adolescents (aged 12–17) were surveyed in […]
Read MoreAUTHOR: Michael Walter Cardiovascular Business News Patients with acute heart failure who test positive for COVID-19 face a heightened risk of death, according to new research published in ESC Heart Failure. The study’s authors tracked data from 283 patients in the UK. Overall, they found that the mortality rate for acute heart failure patients was 11% […]
Read MoreAuthor: Michael Walter Cardiovascular Business News Drinking too much alcohol in a given week can put atrial fibrillation (AFib) patients at an increased risk of stroke, embolism and other significant health issues, according to new findings published in EP Europace. The authors examined outcomes from more than 9,000 AFib patients treated at one of 18 hospitals […]
Read MoreMedical X press In extremely rare instances, newborns can contract cancer from their pregnant moms during delivery, a new case report suggests. Two boys, a 23-month-old and a 6-year-old, developed lung cancers that proved an exact genetic match to cervical cancers within their mothers at the time of birth, Japanese researchers report. It appears that the […]
Read MoreBy Rae Ellen Bichell and Lauren Weber KHN As Los Angeles hospitals give record numbers of covid patients oxygen, the systems and equipment needed to deliver the life-sustaining gas are faltering. “Everybody is worried about what’s going to happen in the next week or so,” said Cathy Chidester, director of the L.A. County Emergency Medical Services Agency.It’s gotten […]
Read MoreAuthors: Yukiko Omura, M.D. et al Anesthesiology January 2021. Background Cardiac sympathoexcitation leads to ventricular arrhythmias. Spinal anesthesia modulates sympathetic output and can be cardioprotective. However, its effect on the cardio-spinal reflexes and network interactions in the dorsal horn cardiac afferent neurons and the intermediolateral nucleus sympathetic neurons that regulate sympathetic output is not known. […]
Read MoreAuthor: Tony Mira Anesthesiallc Summary: The recent passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act provides a modicum of consolation for providers who had been preparing for major cuts in Medicare reimbursement. While the legislation does not reverse these cuts, they have been significantly pared down to a more manageable level. Over the last several months, the American […]
Read MoreBy Denise Baez DG Alerts Both hyperglycaemia and hypoglycaemia were associated with poor outcomes in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), according to a study published in Diabetes Care. An analysis of 1,544 patients with COVID-19 from 91 hospitals in 12 states — stratified according to achieved mean glucose category during hospitalisation — found that […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Kenneth B Chapman, Tariq A Yousef et al. Neuromodulation. 2020 Nov 23 BACKGROUND Dorsal root ganglion neurostimulation (DRG-S) is effective in treating various refractory chronic pain syndromes. In preclinical studies, DRG-S at very low frequencies (<5 Hz) reduces excitatory output in the superficial dorsal horn. Clinically, we have also observed the effectiveness of DRG-S at […]
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