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Using a femoral nerve block in paediatric patients undergoing knee surgery leads to less opioid use and allows the majority of patients to go home within hours of surgery, according to a study published in the Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics. “Our goal with this technique is to reduce pain, which improves patient outcomes and patient […]
Read MoreThis is for our readers who practice critical care medicine. Published in Crit Care Med. 2014 Jul 28 Authors: Stær-Jensen Hn et al OBJECTIVE: Comatose patients resuscitated after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest receive therapeutic hypothermia. Bradycardia is frequent during therapeutic hypothermia, but its impact on outcome remains unclear. We explore a possible association between bradycardia during […]
Read MoreThis is for our readers who practice critical care medicine. Published in Crit Care Med. 2014 Aug;42(8):1839-48 Authors; Lewis SC et al OBJECTIVES: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released new surveillance definitions for ventilator-associated events, including the new entities of ventilator-associated conditions and infection-related ventilator-associated complications. Both ventilator-associated conditions and infection-related ventilator-associated […]
Read MoreThis is for our readers that practice critical care medicine. Published in Crit Care Med. 2014 Jul 10 Authors: Kane-Gill SL et al OBJECTIVE: To determine the point prevalence of drug-induced hypotension episodes in critically ill patients, to assess the episodes resulting from error, and to describe how episodes are treated. DESIGN: Multicenter observational, 24-hour […]
Read MoreA preoperative briefing lasting 2 minutes or less improves safety and communication in the operating room (OR) and reduces delays by more than 80%, say the authors of a new review. Briefings and debriefings can improve teamwork in the OR, lead author Caitlin W. Hicks, MD, and colleagues write in an article published online July […]
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