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Utah’s governor on Monday signed a bill requiring doctors to administer anesthesia to women receiving an abortion at the 20th week of gestation, his office said. The bill, the first of its kind in the nation according to the Salt Lake Tribune, states that an anesthetic or analgesic will “eliminate or alleviate organic pain to […]
Read MoreAnesthesia & Analgesia: March 2016 AUTHORS: Frölich, Michael A. MD, MS et al BACKGROUND: Hormonal action has been implicated as a possible mechanism for pregnancy-induced analgesia. Previous investigators have reported an increase in heat pain tolerance during labor compared with nonpregnant controls and postulated it was because of the hormonal changes during pregnancy. However, these […]
Read MoreAnesthesia & Analgesia: March 2016 AUTHORS: Nowakowski, Michal MD et al BACKGROUND: Endotracheal intubation is commonly performed via direct laryngoscopy (DL). However, in certain patients, DL may be difficult or impossible. The Bonfils Rigid Fiberscope(R) (BRF) is an alternative intubation device, the design of which raises the question of whether factors that predict difficult DL […]
Read MoreAnesthesia & Analgesia: March 2016 AUTHORS: Culley, Deborah J. MD et al BACKGROUND: Preexisting cognitive impairment is emerging as a predictor of poor postoperative outcomes in seniors. We hypothesized that preoperative cognitive screening can be performed in a busy preadmission evaluation center and that cognitive impairment is prevalent in elective geriatric surgical patients. METHODS: We […]
Read MoreHsiu Ying “Lisa” Tseng, DO, made dubious medical history in October 2015 when she became the first US physician to be convicted of murder for overprescribing drugs that resulted in the overdose death of a patient. Last week, the 46-year-old Dr Tseng was sentenced to from 30 years to life in prison by Los Angeles […]
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