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Increased use of drugs has failed to stem the tide of children admitted to hospitals for headaches, researchers say. “I think this suggests that we are not adequately treating their headaches,” Michelle Perry, MD, from the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh UPMC in Pennsylvania, told Medscape Medical News. Dr Perry presented the finding here at the American […]
Read MoreA 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Read MoreQuality Queries and Quandaries: By Emil Engels, MD, MBA, CPC Congress has finally repealed the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula with a law titled the Medicare Access and Chip Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA).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 […]
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