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Uncategorized Published - 27 June, 2016    By - Dr Clemens
FDA Panel: Physician Opioid Training Should Be Mandatory

Physician training on the risks of prescription opioids should be mandatory and include information on immediate-release (IR) as well as extended-release (ER) and long-acting (LA) formulations, a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel concludes. At a 2-day joint meeting, the FDA’s Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee and its Anesthetic and Analgesic […]

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Uncategorized Published - 27 June, 2016    By - Dr Clemens
In the United States, “Opt-Out” States Show No Increase in Access to Anesthesia Services for Medicare Beneficiaries Compared with Non–“Opt-Out” States

A&A Case Reports: 1 May 2016 – Volume 6 – Issue 9 – p 283–285 AUTHORS:  C. MD, PhD et al In the United States, anesthesia care can be provided by anesthesiologists or nurse anesthetists. Since 2001, 17 states have exercised their right to “opt-out” of the federal requirement that a physician supervise the administration […]

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Uncategorized Published - 27 June, 2016    By - Dr Clemens
Nearly 1 in 3 on Medicare got commonly abused opioids

Nearly 12 million Medicare beneficiaries received at least one prescription for an opioid painkiller last year at a cost of $4.1 billion, according to a federal report that shows how common the addictive drugs are in many older Americans’ medicine cabinets. With an overdose epidemic worsening, nearly one-third of Medicare beneficiaries received at least one […]

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Uncategorized Published - 27 June, 2016    By - Dr Clemens
To Improve Survival Rates, Think of Trauma Care as a System

Researchers call for combining the efforts of military and civilian trauma systems to “achieve zero preventable deaths” after traumatic injury and mass casualty events. Hospitals need to consider emergency medical teams as care providers, not just ambulance drivers, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences on the lessons for civilians from […]

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Uncategorized Published - 24 June, 2016    By - Dr Clemens
Obesity is associated with more disability at presentation and after treatment in low back pain but not in neck pain: findings from the OIOC registry

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 17 (1), 140 (2016) AUTHORS: Wertli M et al BACKGROUND The influence on the treatment response in patients with low back pain (LBP) and neck pain (NP) is unknown. The aim of the study was to investigate the influence of body weight in patients with low back pain (LBP) and neck pain […]

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