Patients with chronic pain who also have a disorder prior to developing chronic pain, such as anxiety, do not do as well in a treatment program for chronic pain compared with patients who do not have premorbid anxiety, according to a study presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Anxiety and Depression Association of […]
Read MoreThud. Clunk. The sounds heard across athletic fields when helmets and bodies collide make coaches, parents, fans—and especially the athletes themselves—wince. Nearly 4 million sports-related concussions occur in the United States each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Football, hockey and lacrosse are sports that clearly contribute to concussion numbers, but […]
Read MoreAuthors: S Griffiths MBBS FRCA; C Nicholson MBChB (Otago) FRCA BJA Education. 2016;16(1):21-25. Introduction Liver disease in pregnancy is not common but can be a significant cause of maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality, frequently appearing in the triennial confidential enquiries ( Table 1 ). Fulminant hepatic failure is very rare and poses major challenges […]
Read MoreResidents interested in emergency medicine and anesthesiology can now have the best of both worlds—at the same time. The American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) and the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) launched a combined training option that will offer residents the opportunity to get certified for both specialties. “The combined training programs in emergency […]
Read MoreSource: The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 3 CD010135 (Mar 2016) AUTHORS: R, Srivastava A et al BACKGROUND Anaesthetic drugs during general anaesthesia are titrated according to sympathetic or somatic responses to surgical stimuli. It is now possible to measure depth of anaesthesia using electroencephalography (EEG). Entropy, an EEG-based monitor can be used to assess […]
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