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Authors: Clarke H et al., BMJ 2014 Feb 11; 348:g1251 A small but substantial percentage of opiate-naïve patients were still taking pain medications 90 days after major surgery. Annually, more than 200 million patients undergo major surgery worldwide. Many patients require treatment with opiates for moderate-to-severe postoperative pain; most quickly transition off of pain medications. […]
Read MorePublished in Arch Pediatr. 2014 Apr Authors: Walter-Nicolet E et al., Abstract Tracheal intubation in neonates is a painful procedure performed daily in the delivery room despite the widespread development of noninvasive ventilation. Specific analgesia is not commonly performed. The objective of this observational study was to compare practices between two level-III centers: […]
Read MoreThe purchase of Health Management Associates by Community Health Systems for $7.6 billion and the sale of Vanguard Health Systems to Tenet Healthcare for $4.3 billion were healthcare’s two largest deals last year. Hospital mergers and acquisitions in the United States declined in 2013, but the number of hospitals and hospital beds involved in those […]
Read MorePublished in Paediatr Anaesth. 2014 Jun;24(6):614-9 Authors: Bortone L et al., BACKGROUND: Early negative postoperative behavior (e-PONB) is common in children and manifests itself as emergence agitation (EA), emergence delirium (ED), and pain. The objective of this prospective double blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial was to determine whether IV clonidine or IV fentanyl prior to […]
Read MoreMore than 1 million patients who use federally funded community health centers will remain uninsured because they live in 24 states that chose not to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, according to a study released Friday by researchers at George Washington University. Most of those patients live in the South, because every state […]
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