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Uncategorized Published - 13 July, 2018    By - Dr Clemens
Labor Epidural Analgesia Linked to Reduced Likelihood of Successful Breastfeeding

Labor epidural analgesia may be associated with reduced likelihood of breastfeeding at 6 weeks, according to a study published in Anesthesia & Analgesia. The study included women intending to breastfeed who had delivered vaginally with or without labor epidural analgesia (n=1204). The researchers recorded breastfeeding at 3 days and 6 weeks postpartum. The primary outcome was breastfeeding at […]

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Uncategorized Published - 13 July, 2018    By - Dr Clemens
Do Hospitals Performing Frequent Neuraxial Anesthesia for Hip and Knee Replacements Have Better Outcomes?

Authors: Stavros G. Memtsoudis, M.D., Ph.D., F.C.C.P. et al   Anesthesiology published on June 6, 2018. Background: Neuraxial anesthesia is increasingly recommended for hip/knee replacements as some studies show improved outcomes on the individual level. With hospital-level studies lacking, we assessed the relationship between hospital-level neuraxial anesthesia utilization and outcomes. Methods: National data on 808,237 total knee and 371,607 […]

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Uncategorized Published - 12 July, 2018    By - Dr Clemens
Surgeries account for almost half of hospital costs

By Richard Franki MDedge News Hospital stays with surgeries made up just under 29% of all admissions in 2014 but accounted for over 48% of all hospital costs, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Of the 35.4 million inpatient stays in 2014 – the last full year of ICD-9-CM coding – 10.1 million […]

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Uncategorized Published - 12 July, 2018    By - Dr Clemens
Biogen reports positive results with Alzheimer’s drug, reviving hopes for once-failed treatment

I thought this was interesting so wanted to share. By DAMIAN GARDE JULY 5, 2018 Biogen is declaring success with a once-failed treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, pointing to positive secondary results from a mid-stage study in hopes of saving a drug many in the field had written off entirely. The treatment, BAN2401, failed its primary goal […]

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Uncategorized Published - 12 July, 2018    By - Dr Clemens
Vague Presenting Symptoms Are Associated with Increased Mortality in Septic Shock

Authors: Filbin MR et al.  Crit Care Med 2018 Jun 29 And not for the reasons you might think. Sepsis can be both deadly and difficult to recognize. It is not clear whether treatment delays, such as delayed antibiotic administration, reflect poor recognition, poor quality care, or something else. To examine whether absence of explicit infectious […]

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