Anesthesiology May 2024, Vol. 140, A13–A15. A placebo-controlled trial of percutaneous coronary intervention for stable angina. N Engl J Med 2023; 389:2319–30. PMID: 38015442. Article Selection: BobbieJean Sweitzer, M.D. Image: Adobe Stock. The efficacy of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) on symptom relief in patients with stable angina on little or no antianginal medications is uncertain. This […]
Read MoreAuthors: Chen M et al Cureus 16(2): e55207. doi:10.7759/cureus.55207 Abstract Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rare acute-onset neurological disease with significant morbidity and mortality. The risk of GBS increases after delivery. Labor and delivery presents many possible risk factors for GBS. However, risk factors and prognosis of postpartum GBS remain unclear due to its low incidence. Here, […]
Read MoreAuthors: Jamie W. Sleigh, M.D.; Logan Voss, Ph.D. Anesthesiology May 2024, Vol. 140, 881–883. “[T]he optimal monitor of consciousness for anesthesia will be the one that is quantifying disturbances at whichever syntactic level is most closely linked to the actual generation of the brain semantics (i.e., the ‘mind’).” The prevailing paradigm of brain function assumes that […]
Read MoreAuthors: Marcelo Gama de Abreu, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D., D.E.S.A.I.C. et al “The question that immediately arises from the current post hoc analysis is whether longer exposure times to low mechanical power may also promote ventilator-induced lung injury or whether there is a safety threshold below which no harm is caused to the lung irrespective of the duration […]
Read MoreAuthor: Claire Wallace Becker’s ASC Review A man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for a 2021 stabbing inside of Mercy Surgery Center-Springfield (Mo.), according to an April 12 report from NBC affiliate KYTV. In January, Charles Turner pled guilty to first-degree domestic assault after stabbing an employee at the ASC. The employee survived the attack […]
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