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Uncategorized Published - 20 February, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
iPACK Block Demonstrates Better Analgesia on Day of Total Knee Arthroplasty

Author: Chase Doyle Anesthesiology News Balancing the goals of analgesia with early ambulation after total knee arthroplasty has led to increasingly selective regional analgesia that can sometimes fail to provide optimal pain control. However, recent analysis suggests that adding the iPACK (Infiltration between the Popliteal Artery and Capsule of the Knee) block may offer patients […]

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Uncategorized Published - 20 February, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
A Population-Based Analysis of Intraoperative Cardiac Arrest in the United States

AUTHORS: Fielding-Singh, Vikram MD, JD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: March 2020 – Volume 130 – Issue 3 – p 627-634 BACKGROUND:  A new billable code for intraoperative cardiac arrest was introduced with the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, classification system. Using a national administrative database, we performed a retrospective analysis of intraoperative cardiac arrest in […]

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Uncategorized Published - 20 February, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Anesthesia With and Without Nitrous Oxide and Long-term Cognitive Trajectories in Older Adults

AUTHORS: Sprung, Juraj MD, PhD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: October 18, 2019 – BACKGROUND: We evaluated the hypothesis that the rate of postoperative decline in global cognition is greater in older adults exposed to general anesthesia with nitrous oxide (N2O) compared to general anesthesia without N2O. METHODS: Longitudinal measures of cognitive function were analyzed […]

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Uncategorized Published - 20 February, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
1 in 4 drug OD involves kids or teens

Author: Alan Mozes HealthDay  More than a quarter of all opioid overdoses in the United States involve teenagers, and a full fifth of those cases were likely suicide attempts, new research shows. The findings follow an in-depth analysis of nearly 754,000 American opioid poisoning cases that occurred between 2005 and 2018. All had been reported […]

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Uncategorized Published - 19 February, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Characteristics of Dexmedetomidine Postconditioning in the Field of Myocardial Ischemia–Reperfusion Injury

AUTHORS: Bunte, Sebastian MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: January 2020 – Volume 130 – Issue 1 – p 90-98 BACKGROUND:  Timing and onset of myocardial ischemia are mostly unpredictable. Therefore, postconditioning could be an effective cardioprotective intervention. Because ischemic postconditioning is an invasive and not practicable treatment, pharmacological postconditioning would be a more suitable […]

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