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Author: Karen Sullivan Sibert, MD This article appeared first in “The Conversation” on April 25, 2018, under the title “Why it’s so hard for doctors to understand your pain”. We’re all human beings, but we’re not all alike. Each person experiences pain differently, from an emotional perspective as well as a physical one, and responds […]
Read MoreSurgeons pack donated organs on ice while racing them to transplant patients but it may be time for a warmer approach. British researchers said Wednesday that keeping at least some livers at body temperature instead may work better. The livers keep functioning until they’re transplanted thanks to a machine that pumps them full of blood […]
Read MoreMaintaining a stocked cart, with a full supply of the life-saving drug dantrolene, to treat malignant hyperthermia, a rare but potentially fatal adverse reaction to general anesthesia, may not be cost-beneficial in hospital maternity units where the incidence of the reaction is low, according to a new paper published in the Online First edition of Anesthesiology, […]
Read MoreTwo years ago, Dr. Daniel Cole’s 85-year-old father had heart bypass surgery. He hasn’t been quite the same since. “He forgets things and will ask you the same thing several times,” said Cole, a professor of clinical anesthesiology at UCLA and a past president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. “He never got back to […]
Read MoreAuthors: Enrico M. Camporesi, M.D. et al Anesthesia Research Institute & University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States Introduction: Opioids produce many undesirable side effects such as respiratory depression, sedation, nausea/vomiting, constipation, and ileus. Short-acting opioid used during anesthesia may lead to acute opioid-induced tolerance and hyperalgesia [1]. Furthermore, opioid addiction and overdosing are recognized […]
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