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Authors: Nikhil R Sahni et al BMJ. 2016;354(i3571) Objective To measure the association between a surgeon’s degree of specialization in a specific procedure and patient mortality. Design Retrospective analysis of Medicare data. Setting US patients aged 66 or older enrolled in traditional fee for service Medicare. Participants 25 152 US surgeons who performed one of eight procedures (carotid endarterectomy, coronary […]
Read MoreFouad Ghazi Souki, MD Assistant Professor Shweta Rahul Yemul-Golhar, MD Transplant Anesthesia Fellow Yosaf Zeyed, MD Transplant Anesthesia Fellow Ernesto A. Pretto Jr, MD, MPH Professor Department of Anesthesiology Division of Transplantation University of Miami/Jackson Health System Miami, Florida The authors reported no relevant financial disclosures. Case Description A 46-year-old woman presented for incisional hernia […]
Read MoreSufentanil sublingual tablets effectively control acute pain after outpatient abdominal surgery. Results from a multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled study suggest that 30-mg tablets are “efficacious and well tolerated across a variety of ambulatory surgery procedures for the management of moderate to severe acute postoperative pain,” said Pamela Palmer, MD, PhD, chief medical officer and co-founder of […]
Read MoreRoughly 40% of women receiving intrathecal opioids for cesarean delivery experience hypercapnia, according to a study presented at the 2016 annual meeting of the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology. The researchers said the condition is underdetected in the obstetric population, as per the current guidelines of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA). “Women with […]
Read MoreAnesthesia & Analgesia: December 2016 – Volume 123 – Issue 6 – p 1567–1573 AUTHORS: Dexter, Franklin MD, PhD et al BACKGROUND: Anesthesiologists providing care during off hours (ie, weekends or holidays, or cases started during the evening or late afternoon) are more likely to care for patients at greater risk of sustaining major adverse […]
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