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Pharmaceutical costs are already a large share of most health organizations’ budgets and this year’s inflation rate may increase drug budgets. Author: Jeff Lagasse Health systems, including inpatient and non-acute environments, can expect a 4.57% increase in pharmaceutical spend for 2020. Vizient, which revealed that finding in its recent 2019 Drug Price Forecast, predicts a […]
Read MoreBy Kelly Young Roughly half of opioid-naive inpatients are given an opioid during their hospital stay, finds a study of one U.S. health network in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Researchers examined opioid prescribing for nearly 150,000 opioid-naive inpatients in a network of Pennsylvania hospitals between 2010 and 2014. Of the 48% who received an opioid […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Sun R et al BMJ Open 9 (4), e025850 (Apr 2019) INTRODUCTION: Delirium is very common in patients admitted to intensive care unit (ICU), and may worsen survival in these patients. Several meta-analyses have evaluated the antidelirium effects of dexmedetomidine in ICU patients, but their findings were inconsistent. Recently, several large multicentre randomised clinical […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Matchett, Gerald MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: May 2019 BACKGROUND: Endotracheal tubes (ETTs) are commonly secured with tape to prevent undesirable tube migration. Many methods of taping have been described, although little has been published comparing various methods of taping to one another. In this study, we evaluated several methods for securing ETTs with tape. […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Chiumello, Davide MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: May 2019 BACKGROUND: During thoracic surgery, patients are usually positioned in lateral decubitus and only the dependent lung ventilated. The ventilated lung is thus exposed to the weight of the contralateral hemithorax and restriction of the dependent chest wall. We hypothesized that mechanical power would increase during one-lung […]
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