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A literature review from Canada has concluded that in the current health care environment, alternative assessment and management strategies should be the norm for morbidly obese individuals with difficult airways. Armed with findings from the review, the researchers subsequently constructed a scoring system to predict the likelihood of a difficult airway in morbidly obese patients. […]
Read MoreQuality Queries and Quandaries: By Emil Engels, MD, MBA, CPC Congress has finally repealed the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula with a law titled the Medicare Access and Chip Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). In addition to repealing the SGR formula, MACRA continued the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) shift away from fee-for-service […]
Read MoreRedefining the economics of health care is certainly a daunting undertaking, but nonetheless it is necessary to ensure the long-term global viability of the industry, including the practice of anesthesiology. While many panaceas have been proposed over the past five decades, Michael E. Porter, PhD, a professor at Harvard Business School, in Boston, believes he […]
Read MoreFor patients with severe, chronic back and leg pain, a new high-frequency spinal cord stimulation (SCS) technique provides superior clinical outcomes, compared to conventional low-frequency SCS, reports a clinical trial in the November issue of Neurosurgery. The new ‘HF10′ technique offers lasting reductions in back and leg pain after other treatments have failed, according to […]
Read MoreFor patients undergoing noncardiac surgery, rates of death, stroke, and myocardial injury are reduced when angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs) are discontinued 24 hours before the procedure, according to new research. “We believe clinicians should consider withholding ACE inhibitors and ARBs in major noncardiac surgery patients in the 24 hours before surgery,” […]
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