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Uncategorized Published - 14 April, 2016    By - Dr Clemens
Role of Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing as a Risk-assessment Method in Patients Undergoing Intra-abdominal Surgery

A Systematic Review Authors: J. Moran; F. Wilson et al Br J Anaesth. 2016;116(2):177-191. Background: Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is used as a preoperative risk-stratification tool for patients undergoing non-cardiopulmonary intra-abdominal surgery. Previous studies indicate that CPET may be beneficial, but research is needed to quantify CPET values protective against poor postoperative outcome [mortality, morbidity, […]

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Uncategorized Published - 14 April, 2016    By - Dr Clemens
Less Than an Hour of Sevoflurane in Infancy Does Not Harm Neurodevelopment

An international multicenter trial has concluded that just under an hour of sevoflurane anesthesia during infancy does not increase the risk for adverse neurodevelopmental outcome at 2 years of age, relative to awake regional anesthesia. The finding is in contrast to some previous cohort studies. According to Andrew J. Davidson, MD, senior anesthesiologist and director […]

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Uncategorized Published - 13 April, 2016    By - Dr Clemens
Agreement on Physical Status Scores Poor Among Anesthesiologists, Others

Although inconsistencies among anesthesiologists have been demonstrated in the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status classification system, one study from the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center, in New York City, has found that agreement between anesthesiologists and nonanesthesiologists is exceedingly weak. These discrepancies are particularly evident in patients with higher […]

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Uncategorized Published - 13 April, 2016    By - Dr Clemens
Hypertension in Pregnancy Portends Lasting Cardiomyopathy Risk

Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy (HDP) are associated with an increased risk of cardiomyopathy years after an affected pregnancy and regardless of hypertension severity, a large registry study involving one million Danish women shows. “The fact that we could drop the first 5 years after pregnancy and still see this risk was really fascinating,” senior author […]

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Uncategorized Published - 13 April, 2016    By - Dr Clemens
Soaring Rates of Opioid Addiction Challenge Hospitalists

The toll that opioid addiction has taken in the United States is staggering, said Jesse Theisen-Toupal, MD, from the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Washington, DC. “In 2000, there were 4400 opioid overdose-related deaths,” he reported here at the Society of Hospital Medicine 2016 Annual Meeting. “In 2013, there were 16,000.” Despite this crisis, some […]

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