AUTHORS: Whitney, Gina M. MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: June 2019 – Volume 128 – Issue 6 – p 1242-1248 BACKGROUND: Pediatric anesthesiologists are exposed to ionizing radiation from x-rays on an almost daily basis. Our goal was to determine the culture of safety in which they work and how they adhere to preventative strategies […]
Read MoreI thought this was interesting so I wanted to share it with our readers. By Scott Maier University of California, San Francisco Patient Care While long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs) are designed to help patients recover and regain independence, fewer than 1-in-5 older adults who were transferred to such facilities were alive five years later, leaving […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Sola, Chrystelle MD, MSc et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: June 2019 – Volume 128 – Issue 6 – p 1234-1241 BACKGROUND: The transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block has become a common regional anesthesia technique for pain management in a wide variety of abdominal procedures. Evidence to support any particular local anesthetic regimen as well as […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Nafiu, Olubukola O. MD, FRCA, MS et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: June 2019 – Volume 128 – Issue 6 – p 1225-1233 BACKGROUND: Many children recovering from anesthesia experience pain that is severe enough to warrant intravenous (IV) opioid treatment within moments of admission to the postanesthesia care unit (PACU). Postoperative pain has several negative […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Fujita, Nobuko MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: June 2019 – Volume 128 – Issue 6 – p 1217-1222 BACKGROUND: Despite the existing dogma that women undergoing cesarean delivery under spinal anesthesia should be positioned with a 15° left-lateral tilt, the patients were actually positioned in a right-lateral tilt position in several of the original […]
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