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Anesthesiology News Michael Schatman, PhD, is the director of research and network development at Boston Pain Care, an adjunct clinical assistant professor of public health and community medicine at Tufts University, and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Pain Research. Here he discusses pain medicine in the midst of the opioid crisis and the rise of medical marijuana. […]
Read MoreAuthors: Zhao-Ting Meng et al Plos July 1, 2019 Background Patients after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) often develop moderate to severe pain. This study compared the analgesic effect of low-dose epidural morphine vs. a comparable saline injection in patients following TKA surgery. Methods This randomized, double-blinded, and placebo-controlled trial was conducted in a tertiary hospital […]
Read MoreBy Rita Agrawal, MD Featured in Op-Med In 2015, healthy, happy 6-year-old Caleb Sears suffered a cardiac arrest in his oral surgeon’s office after receiving midazolam, ketamine, propofol, fentanyl, and nitrous oxide. He became apneic and later passed away. His devastated family could not understand how this tragedy had happened. They discovered that in California and […]
Read MoreAuthors: Jin Y et al Exp Ther Med. 2019 Jul;18(1):289-295 Abstract Effective and adequate post-operative analgesia for cesarean section is in demand due to increasing rates of cesarean deliveries, and may help promote recovery, ambulation and breastfeeding. Local nerve block has been applied as post-operative analgesia for maternal patients receiving cesarean section; specifically, lateral abdominal transversus […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Zhou, Hui MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: July 2019 – Volume 129 – Issue 1 – p 287-293 BACKGROUND: Acute kidney injury is a common complication after open total aortic arch replacement but lacks effective preventive strategies. Remote ischemic preconditioning has controversial results of its benefit to the kidney and may perform better in […]
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