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AUTHORS: Deflandre, Eric P. MD, PhD, FCCP, FAHA et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: March 15, 2021 BACKGROUND: Severe obstructive sleep apnea (sOSA) represents a risk factor of postoperative complications. Perioperative sleep apnea prediction (P-SAP) and DES-obstructive sleep apnea (DES-OSA) (DES being the acronym for 2 of the participating investigators and OSA for obstructive sleep apnea) scores […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Seet, Edwin MMed et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: March 10, 2021 BACKGROUND: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has been found to be associated with difficult airway, although there is a paucity of prospective studies investigating thresholds of OSA severity with difficult airway outcomes. The aim of this study was to examine the association between OSA and […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Zarbock, Alexander MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: March 8, 2021 BACKGROUND: Prospective, single-center trials have shown that the implementation of the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) recommendations in high-risk patients significantly reduced the development of acute kidney injury (AKI) after surgery. We sought to evaluate the feasibility of implementing a bundle of supportive […]
Read MoreDG Journal Club AUTHORS: Dixiang Song, Jianguo Li et al. World Neurosurg. 2021 Feb 26 BACKGROUND Carbamazepine (CBZ) is the first-line therapy for Trigeminal Neuralgia (TGN), and Microvascular Decompression (MVD) is considered as an effective surgical treatment for TGN. But the effect of preoperative CBZ treatment for MVD outcome is not clear. METHODS A total […]
Read MoreDG Journal Club AUTHORS: Ying Zha, Xun Gong et al. Medicine (Baltimore). 2021 Mar 5; 100(9): e24923 ABSTRACT Recent research has suggested that 6 cm of cervical dilation should be the threshold for the active labor phase, and it has confirmed that epidural analgesia (EA) is a safe method of pain relief during labor. However, the […]
Read MoreDG Journal Club Authors: Sushmithadev Kumaradev, Aurore Fayosse et al. Pain. 2021 May 1; 162(5): 1578-1585 ABSTRACT This study examines the importance of length of follow-up on the association between pain and incident dementia. Further objective was to characterize pain trajectories in the 27 years preceding dementia diagnosis and compare them with those among persons […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Pulos, Bridget P. MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: May 2021 – Volume 132 – Issue 5 – p 1429-1437 BACKGROUND: Retrospective and prospective studies 2 decades ago from the authors’ institution reported the incidence of perioperative ulnar neuropathy persisting for at least several months in a noncardiac adult surgical population to be between 30 […]
Read MoreDG Journal Club AUTHORS: Erin E Birmingham, Astrid G Stucke et al. Paediatr Anaesth. 2021 Feb 28 BACKGROUND Trisomy 18 or Edwards syndrome is the second most common aneuploidy with a prevalence between 1/3000 and 1/10 000 live births. The syndrome encompasses malformations of the central nervous, cardiac, respiratory, gastrointestinal, and genitourinary systems. Trisomy 18 carries […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Barbariol, Federico MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: May 2021 – Volume 132 – Issue 5 – p 1450-1456 BACKGROUND: Pharmacological treatments for critical processes in patients need to be initiated as rapidly as possible; for this reason, it is a standard of care to prepare the main anesthesia and emergency drugs in advance. As […]
Read MoreDG Journal Club AUTHORS: Carrie R Houts, James S McGinley et al. Headache. 2021 Feb; 61(2): 263-275 BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE To review the acute migraine clinical trial literature and provide a summary of the endpoints and outcomes used in such trials. METHOD A systematic literature review, following a prespecified (but unregistered) protocol developed to adhere to recommendations […]
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