Steven M. Frank, MD Medical Director, Center for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery Medical Director, Johns Hopkins Health System Blood Management Clinical Community Professor, Department of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Baltimore, Maryland Andrew V. Scott, BS Medical Student The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Baltimore, Maryland Linda M. S. Resar, MD Co-Director, Center […]
Read MoreRepeated or lengthy use of general anesthetic and sedation drugs in infants, toddlers and pregnant women in their third trimester might damage children’s developing brains, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned this month. Upset that the warning about pregnant women was based solely on animal studies, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, or […]
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Read MoreMyron Yaster, MD Following on the heels of a 2015 inpatient study, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have found that health care providers dispense far more medicine than is necessary to treat pain after pediatric outpatient surgery. They hypothesized that the tremendous amount of unused medications may be contributing to the […]
Read MoreChronic hypertension is seen in 30% of adults in the United States, and patients presenting with hypertension for elective surgery is an everyday occurrence in U.S. health care. Nonetheless, elective surgical procedures are commonly canceled due to elevated blood pressure on the day of surgery. However, a new study indicates that postponing surgery to treat […]
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