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By Kelly Young The American Thoracic Society has issued new guidelines on evaluating and managing patients with obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS), defined as obesity in the presence of sleep disordered breathing and awake daytime hypercapnia after other causes of hypoventilation are ruled out. The guidelines, published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, […]
Read MoreAuthor: Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press Oklahoma’s $572 million judgment against Johnson & Johnson will likely be followed by more trials and legal settlements seeking to hold a drug company accountable for a U.S. opioid crisis that has ripped apart lives, families and communities. Monday’s ruling could help shape negotiations over roughly 1,500 similar lawsuits filed by state, local and […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Lee J et al Medicine (Baltimore) 98 (18), e15385 (May 2019) BACKGROUND Thoracotomy is one of the most painful surgeries; therefore, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) was developed to reduce the surgical stress of thoracotomy. Although VATS results in reduced postoperative pain compared with thoracotomy, it is still painful. Serratus plane block (SPB) is a […]
Read MoreAUTHOR: Carin A. Hagberg, MD, FASA Anesthesiology News Editor’s note: A key of all abbreviations and acronyms appears below. Management of the difficult airway remains one of the most relevant and challenging clinical situations encountered by anesthesia practitioners, as major adverse consequences can occur if the airway is not secured in a timely fashion. This […]
Read MoreAuthor: Brandon May Spinal anesthetic failure in patients undergoing elective hip and knee joint arthroplasty was associated with younger age, lower body mass index (BMI), needle insertion site, and needle size, according to study results published in Anesthesia & Analgesia. Researchers retrospectively reviewed electronic anesthetic records of elective hip and knee replacements that were performed using spinal anesthesia. […]
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