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U.S. births dropped 2% from 2016 to 2017, hitting a new 30-year low, according to provisional data from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. Roughly 3.8 million infants were born in 2017. This marks a 3-year decline in U.S. births. Among the other findings in the report: The fertility rate fell 3% from the […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Stein, Philipp, MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: February 2018 – Volume 126 – Issue 2 – p 522–529 BACKGROUND: There is limited data on prehospital administration of tranexamic acid (TXA) in civilian trauma. The aim of this study was to evaluate changes in coagulation after severe trauma from on-scene to the hospital after TXA application […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Lim, Grace, MD, MS et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: May 2018 – Volume 126 – Issue 5 – p 1598–1605 BACKGROUND: Using labor, epidural analgesia has been linked to a reduced risk of postpartum depression, but the role of labor pain relief in this association remains unclear. The goal of this study was to test […]
Read MoreAlthough frailty obviously is an important perioperative risk factor, interventional research on the subject has been sparse. A systematic review from the University of Ottawa found a marked shortage of studies on frailty, but it also found that exercise therapy is consistently associated with improved outcomes in this at-risk patient population. “Frailty is a key […]
Read MoreI thought this was interesting so I wanted to share. A visual test might help clinicians flag patients at higher dementia risk, suggests a study in the Annals of Family Medicine. Researchers followed nearly 2700 patients aged 70 to 78 who didn’t have baseline dementia. At baseline and at 2 years, patients were administered the Mini-Mental […]
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