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Uncategorized Published - 8 December, 2016    By - Dr Clemens
Sublingual Sufentanil for Outpatient Abdominal Surgery

Sufentanil sublingual tablets effectively control acute pain after outpatient abdominal surgery. Results from a multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled study suggest that 30-mg tablets are “efficacious and well tolerated across a variety of ambulatory surgery procedures for the management of moderate to severe acute postoperative pain,” said Pamela Palmer, MD, PhD, chief medical officer and co-founder of […]

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Uncategorized Published - 8 December, 2016    By - Dr Clemens
Hypercapnia Is Underdetected in Women During Cesarean Delivery

Roughly 40% of women receiving intrathecal opioids for cesarean delivery experience hypercapnia, according to a study presented at the 2016 annual meeting of the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology. The researchers said the condition is underdetected in the obstetric population, as per the current guidelines of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA). “Women with […]

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Uncategorized Published - 8 December, 2016    By - Dr Clemens
Diversity and Similarity of Anesthesia Procedures in the United States During and Among Regular Work Hours, Evenings, and Weekends

Anesthesia & Analgesia: December 2016 – Volume 123 – Issue 6 – p 1567–1573 AUTHORS: Dexter, Franklin MD, PhD et al BACKGROUND: Anesthesiologists providing care during off hours (ie, weekends or holidays, or cases started during the evening or late afternoon) are more likely to care for patients at greater risk of sustaining major adverse […]

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Uncategorized Published - 8 December, 2016    By - Dr Clemens
Inhibition of Oxidative Stress in Renal Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury.

Anesthesia & Analgesia: September 2016 AUTHORS: Choi, Eun Kyung MD, PhD et al BACKGROUND: Superoxide, nitric oxide (NO), and peroxynitrite are important mediators in the pathogenesis of ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury. We tested the renoprotective effects of allopurinol (ALP), a xanthine oxidase inhibitor, N-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME), and 5,10,15,20-tetrakis (N-methyl-4-pyridyl) porphyrinato iron (III) (FeTMPyP) by selective […]

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Uncategorized Published - 8 December, 2016    By - Dr Clemens
Long-Acting Patient-Controlled Opioids Are Not Associated With More Postoperative Hypoxemia Than Short-Acting Patient-Controlled Opioids After Noncardiac Surgery: A Cohort Analysis

Anesthesia & Analgesia: December 2016 – Volume 123 – Issue 6 – p 1471–1479 AUTHORS: Belcher, Allan W. DO et al BACKGROUND: Opioids can contribute to postoperative desaturation. Short-acting opioids, titrated to need, may cause less desaturation than longer-acting opioids. We thus tested the primary hypothesis that long-acting patient-controlled intravenous opioids are associated with more […]

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