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Uncategorized Published - 9 March, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
How Going Green Can Save Your Hospital Millions

This doesn’t directly involve anesthesia but I thought this was interesting so I wanted to share with our readers. Author: Victoria Stern Anesthesiology News When Stephanie M. Barman, RN, saw how much waste a single procedure in the OR generated, she knew something needed to be done. “One procedure created an entire case cart of […]

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Uncategorized Published - 6 March, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
A Simple Method for Estimating Hand Hygiene Use Among Anesthesia Personnel: Development, Validation, and Use in a Quality Improvement Project

AUTHORS: Segal, Scott MD, MHCM et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: December 2019 – Volume 129 – Issue 6 – p 1549-1556 BACKGROUND:  Frequent hand hygiene by anesthesia personnel may be an important factor in reducing contamination of IV lines and medication access ports and may reduce hospital-acquired infections. Measurement of hand hygiene frequency at the […]

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Uncategorized Published - 6 March, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Using Pupillary Pain Index to Assess Nociception in Sedated Critically Ill Patients

AUTHORS: Vinclair, Marc MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: December 2019 – Volume 129 – Issue 6 – p 1540-1546 BACKGROUND:  Pupillary reflex dilation is a reliable indicator of response to noxious stimulation. In a proof of concept study, we investigated the performance of pupillary pain index, a new score derived from pupillary reflex dilation […]

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Uncategorized Published - 6 March, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Dexmedetomidine for Improved Quality of Emergence From General Anesthesia

AUTHORS: Aouad, Marie T. MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: December 2019 – Volume 129 – Issue 6 – p 1504-1511 BACKGROUND:  Dexmedetomidine provides smooth and hemodynamically stable emergence at the expense of hypotension, delayed recovery, and sedation. We investigated the optimal dose of dexmedetomidine for prevention of cough, agitation, hypertension, tachycardia, and shivering, with […]

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Uncategorized Published - 6 March, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
COPD patients’ hospital stays 67% shorter due to one additional staff meeting

By American Osteopathic Association Hospitals can dramatically reduce the length of a patient’s stay (by up to 67%) when their provider teams hold integrated care conferences (ICCs), a daily meeting for providers to share information at once. However, the seemingly obvious concept is rarely implemented, according to researchers in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association. […]

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