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By Bill Siwicki Healthcare IT News Blood is a precious commodity nationwide and notably wasted. At University of Missouri Health Care, the mean red blood cell transfusion rate is now 22.4 percent below the original baseline rate. The medical director of transfusion services explains how. Blood transfusion can be lifesaving, but it is not widely known […]
Read MoreAuthor: Mackenzie Bean New York City declared a public health emergency April 9 amid an ongoing measles outbreak and ordered mandatory vaccinations for residents in some zip codes, reports The Washington Post. Three things to know: 1. Health officials have confirmed 285 measles cases in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens since October 2018. The outbreak has primarily […]
Read MoreAuthor: Michael Vlessides Anesthesiology News When it comes to video-assisted thorascopic surgery (VATS) for lobectomy, a study has found that patients who underwent thoracic epidural analgesia used more than 40% less opioids in the first two postoperative days than their counterparts receiving surgical site infiltration with liposomal bupivacaine. The researchers acknowledged, however, that more and […]
Read MoreAuthors: Aurora Naa-Afoley Quaye et al Pain Medicine, 30 November 2018 Objective There is no consensus on the optimal perioperative management of patients on buprenorphine (BUP) for opioid use disorder (OUD). This article will review the available literature on BUP and the analgesic efficacy of BUP combined with full mu-opioid agonists and discuss the conflicting […]
Read MoreAuthor: Bruce Japsen Forbes Health Hospitals improved their financial performance last year but they continue to struggle to increase their volumes, according to a new report. Healthcare consulting firm Kaufman Hall called 2018 “generally a year of improvement” for hospitals. “Profitability indicators demonstrated growth in operating margin as compared with (2017) of about 5% and […]
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