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Sarah Gebauer, M.D. ASA Monitor 10 2016, Vol.80, 8-9. Anesthesiologists are uniquely positioned to provide specialist care in pain and symptom management as well as a nuanced perspective of the likely course for critically ill patients. Additionally, the ability to coordinate and balance the often disparate priorities of multiple coworkers, which so routinely occurs in the O.R., […]
Read MoreKilgannon JH et al., Resuscitation 2016 Sep 22; Compression rates of 120–140 per minute increased odds of return of spontaneous circulation relative to the guideline-recommended rate of 100–120. For patients with cardiac arrest, quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) should be the first priority for providers. In 2015, American Heart Association/European guidelines changed the recommendation for chest compression rate […]
Read MoreAnesthesiology published on October 6, 2016. Authors: Jukka Kortelainen, M.D., Ph.D. et al Background: Slow waves (less than 1 Hz) are the most important electroencephalogram signatures of nonrapid eye movement sleep. While considered to have a substantial importance in, for example, providing conditions for single-cell rest and preventing long-term neural damage, a disturbance in this neurophysiologic phenomenon […]
Read MoreAnesthesiology published on October 6, 2016 Authors: Thomas Godet, M.D., Ph.D. et al Background: The decision to extubate brain-injured patients with residual impaired consciousness holds a high degree of uncertainty of success. The authors developed a pragmatic clinical score predictive of extubation failure in brain-injured patients. Methods: One hundred and forty brain-injured patients were prospectively included after the […]
Read MoreConservative oxygen therapy is associated with lower mortality risk in the ICU, according to an open-label study in JAMA presented at the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine’s Annual Congress. Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD, and Richard Saitz, MD, MPH, FACP, FASAM In an Italian hospital, researchers randomized nearly 500 adult ICU patients to conservative or conventional oxygen therapy. […]
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