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Associated Press A Southern California hospital issued an apology to the women who claimed they were secretly filmed during gynecological surgeries. More than 80 women sued Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa last week, alleging they were recorded by motion-activated cameras set up in three operating rooms as part of an effort to catch a […]
Read MoreFrom Mass General Hospital Guidelines for operating room attire may change in 2019 and ease tension over donning the controversial bouffant. “Give me my beautiful cloth hats or give me death!!” tweeted a pediatric anesthesiologist last May. This ultimatum, along with similar sentiments from others, carried the hashtag #BanTheBouffant, a call to arms over surgical […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Veihelmann A et al Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie (Nov 2018) BACKGROUND Many members of the adult population suffer acute low back pain at some stage in life. A specific cause is found in only a rather small number of these patients. Some of the patients develop chronic low back pain and this is a major […]
Read MoreBy Nadia Kounang CNN This is your brain on pain 01:39 Deaths from the synthetic opioid fentanyl skyrocketed more than 1,000% from 2011 to 2016, according to a report released Thursday. The number of fatalities related to the drug held fairly steady between 2011 and 2012, hovering around 1,600 deaths in both those years. In 2013, the number […]
Read MoreWilliam Donovan As previously reported, in that massive July 31 proposed rule (“CMS to Pay Extra for Exparel in ASCs, Not Hospitals,” Orthopedics This Week, October 9, 2018), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) singled out one pain medication, the drug Exparel, for extra reimbursement under the bundled-payment system for outpatient surgeries such as […]
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