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John E. Fiadjoe, MD Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Madhankumar Sathyamoorthy, MBBS, MS Assistant Professor Department of Anesthesiology University of Mississippi Medical Center Jackson, Mississippi Vikram Patel, MD Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology Division of Pediatric Anesthesiology Vanderbilt University Medical […]
Read MoreWhether a surgeon works the night before performing surgery does not change the risk for adverse outcomes, a new study shows. “These data suggest that calls for broad-based policy shifts in duty hours and practices of attending surgeons may not be necessary at this time,” write Anand Govindarajan, MD, from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative […]
Read MoreAuthors: Patrick Meybohm et al BMC Anesthesiol. 2015;15(75) Background: Early goal-directed therapy has been endorsed in the guidelines of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign as a key strategy among patients presenting with severe sepsis or septic shock. But more importantly, early goal-directed therapy also became standard care for non-septic critically ill patients and was adopted for high-risk surgical […]
Read MoreAuthors: Gano D et al., Pediatr Res 2015 Sep 78:323 A significant reduction in composite IQ scores was found at age 3 to 6 years when preterm infants had two or more surgeries before term-equivalent age. There has been growing concern about potential adverse effects of general anesthesia on the developing brain. In a prospective […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Mathew P, Mathew J; The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 8 CD007082 (Aug 2015) BACKGROUND The laryngeal mask airway (LMA) is a safe and effective modality to maintain the airway for general anaesthesia during surgical procedures. The LMA is removed at the end of surgery and anaesthesia, when the patient maintains an adequate respiratory […]
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