AUTHORS: Downey, Laura MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: May 2017 – Volume 124 – Issue 5 – p 1431–1436 BACKGROUND: Recombinant factor VIIa (rFVIIa) is routinely used as an off-label hemostatic agent in children undergoing cardiac surgery. Despite evidence that rFVIIa use is associated with an increased incidence of thrombotic complications in adult cardiac surgery, […]
Read MorePatient-controlled anesthesia for the upper airway can be an effective strategy to prepare patients for awake intubation, a recent study has found. A 2% lidocaine “lollipop” helps patients cooperate using an easy, inexpensive and readily available means, the researchers said. “We recognize this technique doesn’t ensure directed local anesthetic application and requires additional topicalization techniques,” […]
Read MoreResearchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered a neural signature that identified fibromyalgia with 93% accuracy, according to a 72-patient study in the journal Pain 2016 Aug 31. “This neural measure for fibromyalgia is composed of three brain-related submeasures that together identify [individuals with] fibromyalgia,” said lead author Marina López-Solà, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate […]
Read MoreAuthors: J.P. Abenstein, M.S.E.E., M.D., FASA et al ASA Monitor 07 2017, Vol.81, 36-38. We read with interest the May 2017 ASA Monitor article written by Ken Pauker, M.D., and colleagues regarding the association of increased postoperative troponin with non-cardiac surgery, myocardial injury (MINS) and increased 30-day mortality.1 While the authors describe Type I myocardial injury as being caused by […]
Read MoreAuthor: Anthony G. Doufas, M.D., Ph.D. ASA Monitor 07 2017, Vol.81, 24-26. Anthony G. Doufas, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California. Large, retrospective clinical cohorts suggest that preoperative diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with more than a two-fold increase in the […]
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