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Most adults who are at risk for postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) after general anesthesia need more prophylactic antiemetics than current guidelines recommend, according to a new study that used a national database. The large study found that patients who had ambulatory surgery were much less likely to need a rescue antiemetic in the postanesthesia […]
Read MoreA telephone-delivered intervention, which included automated symptom monitoring, produced clinically meaningful improvements in chronic musculoskeletal pain compared with usual care, according to a study published in the July 16 issue of JAMA. Kurt Kroenke, MD, Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indiana University School of Medicine, and the Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, and colleagues randomised 250 patients […]
Read MoreControlling pain during childbirth and post delivery may reduce the risk of postpartum depression, according to an editorial published in the journal Anesthesia & Analgesia. The editorial is based on a new Chinese study that found women who had pain control with epidural anaesthesia during a vaginal delivery had a much lower risk for postpartum […]
Read MoreAlthough general anesthesia and conscious sedation seem to equally affect functional independence at discharge in patients with acute ischemic stroke undergoing endovascular intervention therapy, patients who received general anesthesia experienced significantly greater mortality than their counterparts, researchers have found. Whether this difference is directly attributable to anesthesia type, however, is unclear, as the duration of […]
Read MoreGiving steroids to reduce inflammation during cardiopulmonary bypass has no benefit, and may in fact harm patients who receive the drugs, new research shows. An international study of more than 7,500 patients, the largest of its kind to date, is the latest to find that the prophylactic administration of IV steroids during bypass procedures does […]
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