AUTHORS: Turan, Alparslan MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: February 2019 BACKGROUND: Pain after cardiac surgery is largely treated with opioids, but their poor safety profile makes nonopioid medications attractive as part of multimodal pathways. Anti-inflammatory drugs reduce acute postoperative pain, but the role of steroids in reducing acute poststernotomy pain is unclear. We evaluated the […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Adler, Adam C. MD, MS, FAAP, FASE et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: February 2019 BACKGROUND: Caudal block, the most common regional anesthetic in children, is predominantly performed using palpation to determine placement. The efficacy of the palpation technique is unknown with respect to block success. While ultrasound has been suggested for use during caudal block, its […]
Read MoreBy Swinburne University of Technology Researchers at Swinburne have developed a collaborative robot system to automatically treat back, neck and head pain caused by soft tissue injury. Based on an analysis of the patient by a thermal camera, the system uses a collaborative robot to apply targeted laser therapy to identified pain ‘hot spots.” “Unlike conventional industrial robots […]
Read MoreBy Maria Cohut Medical News Today By studying a large cohort of women who had already been through menopause, researchers have found that cardiovascular risk is associated with body shape, which results from how fat is distributed in the body. A new study suggests that in women over 50, body shape is associated with cardiovascular risk. […]
Read More“The device is very accurate to detect early bleeding… When you have half a liter of blood in the abdomen, the patient will be hypertensive, sweating and in shock. So we want to detect bleeding before this,” cardiologist Philippe Genereux told UPI. By Tauren Dyson UPI The Early Bird system detected bleeding in 63 percent […]
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