Authors: Jay Lewis, MPH and Drew Case ASA Monitor November 2021, Vol. 85, 14. For the past several months, American life has been returning to normal as the world makes progress against the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the United States has emerged from the worst days of the pandemic, a look inside the refrigerator at any of […]
Read MoreAuthors: Zachary Deutch, MD, FASA and Brian Chesebro, MD ASA Monitor November 2021, Vol. 85, 1–7. Hello, everyone, and welcome to the November 2021 “Ask the Expert.” This month, we are going to explore a topic with huge implications for the medical field and the planet, namely the environmental impact of perioperative medicine. All of us […]
Read MoreAuthors: Ke Peng, Ph.D. et al Anesthesiology November 2021, Vol. 135, 877–892. Background Patients undergoing surgical procedures are vulnerable to repetitive evoked or ongoing nociceptive barrage. Using functional near infrared spectroscopy, the authors aimed to evaluate the cortical hemodynamic signal power changes during ongoing nociception in healthy awake volunteers and in surgical patients under general […]
Read MoreAuthor: Zia Sherrell, MPH MedicalNewsToday Migraine can affect anyone, but it is more common in females. Compared with males, females are three to four times more likely to experience migraine. This statistic comes from a paper in the journal Frontiers in Neurology. The reasons that migraine is more common in females are not entirely clear. That […]
Read MorePeter Wu MD FASA The New England Journal of Medicine October 9, 2021 BACKGROUND The effects of spinal anesthesia as compared with general anesthesia on the ability to walk in older adults undergoing surgery for hip fracture have not been well studied. METHODS We conducted a pragmatic, randomized superiority trial to evaluate spinal anesthesia as […]
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