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Uncategorized Published - 20 March, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
In the Weeds: Nation’s First Guidelines for Management of Perioperative Patients on Cannabis

Author: Kim Sumrak ASA Monitor March 2024, Vol. 88, 30–33. Figure: ASRA Pain Medicine consensus guidelines on the management of the perioperative patient on cannabis and cannabinoids: an infographic. (Reg Anesth Pain Med 2023;48:119). Whether due to legalization, culture change, or other reasons, Americans have been using more cannabis over the past 20 years. According to the […]

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Uncategorized Published - 20 March, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
Committee on Environmental Health Releases New Edition of ‘Greening the Operating Room and Perioperative Arena’

Author: Jodi D. Sherman, MD ASA Monitor March 2024, Vol. 88, 9–10. The ASA Committee on Environmental Health is pleased to announce the release of the third edition of Greening the Operating Room and Perioperative Arena: Environmental Sustainability in Anesthesia Practice (asamonitor.pub/GORPA). This resource document is widely read and referenced by clinicians, administrators, and policymakers across […]

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Uncategorized Published - 20 March, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
µ-opioid receptor activation at the dorsal reticular nucleus shifts diffuse noxious inhibitory controls to hyperalgesia in chronic joint pain in male rats

Authors: Raquel Pereira-Silva, PhD et al  Anesthesiology February 2024. Background The dorsal reticular nucleus is a pain facilitatory area involved in the diffuse noxious inhibitory controls (DNIC), through opioidergic mechanisms that are poorly understood. We hypothesized that signaling of µ-opioid receptors is altered in this area at prolonged chronic inflammatory pain and that this accounts […]

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Uncategorized Published - 20 March, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
Trends in Anesthesia

ASA Monitor March 2024, Vol. 88, 14. Heart-valve infection death rate increases Recent analysis of research based on death certificate data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicated an overall decline in infective endocarditis death rates in the U.S. from 1999 to 2020. Death rates increased significantly, however, for young adults at an […]

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Uncategorized Published - 20 March, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
AHA: 94% of hospitals financially impacted by Change Healthcare’s cyberattack

By Dave Muoio Fierce Health Almost 60% of surveyed hospitals reported at least $1 million of impacted revenues per day, and 74% said that the Change Healthcare incident has had “direct patient care impact” within their facilities. The breadth and scale of the interruption ends the debate over whether hospitals need more relief from payers and […]

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