Author: Michael Walter Cardiovascular Busyness Nurses caring for a COVID-19 patient in the COVID unit at Banner University Medical Center in Phoenix. More than 25 months after COVID-19 was officially categorized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization, researchers are still working to learn as much as possible about the cardiovascular side effects associated with infection. […]
Read MoreAuthor: Rachel Ann Tee-Melegrito MedicalNewsToday Significant stress is believed to trigger shingles by weakening the immune system, which leads to the reactivation of the dormant varicella-zoster virus (chickenpox) in the body. Shingles, also known as herpes zoster, is a viral infection that causes a painful, stripe-shaped rash with small blisters to appear on one area […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Clemens Scherer et al J Crit Care. 2022 May 5; PURPOSE Benzodiazepines are recommended as first line sedative agent in ventilated cardiogenic shock patients, although data regarding the optimal sedation strategy are sparse. The aim of this study was to investigate the hemodynamic effects of propofol versus midazolam sedation in our cardiogenic shock registry. […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Jinseok Yeo et al World J Surg. 2022 May 8 BACKGROUND A multimodal analgesia (MMA) protocol has shown the effect of postoperative pain control and reduced the postoperative opioid consumption. However, it was questionable whether MMA could replace opioid-based patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) for postoperative pain control. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate whether an […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Guay, Christian S. MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: May 13, 2022 BACKGROUND: Delirium is an acute syndrome characterized by inattention, disorganized thinking, and an altered level of consciousness. A reliable biomarker for tracking delirium does not exist, but oscillations in the electroencephalogram (EEG) could address this need. We evaluated whether the frequencies of EEG […]
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