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In patients in which intravenous metoclopramide fails to relieve moderate or severe headache, greater occipital nerve block with bupivacaine may be an effective treatment, according to study results presented at the 2018 American Headache Society Annual Scientific Meeting, June 28-July 1, 2018, in San Francisco, California. The randomized, 32-month study conducted in 2 urban emergency departments included 28 patients […]
Read MoreThis is important because so many of our readers work in hospitals so I wanted to share it. Bruce Japsen a contributing editor for HealthLeaders. The pharmacy chain could be a threat to hospitals and health systems by entering into the urgent care market. CVS Health, which already has more than 9,800 locations with space allocated […]
Read MoreBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN Story highlights High levels of stress hormones are linked to memory loss, study says Effects are evident in mid-life years, before symptoms appear Listen up, gen-Xers and millennials, and, well, everybody who has a brain. If you live a high-stress life, you could have memory loss and brain shrinkage before you […]
Read MoreAuthors: Duceppe E et al. J Vasc Surg 2018 Jun Giving two or more antihypertensive drugs on the morning of surgery increased risk for postoperative kidney injury. Opinions vary on which of their prescribed antihypertensive medications patients should take on the morning of major surgery. In this retrospective study, researchers examined rates of postoperative acute kidney […]
Read MoreWomen prescribed long-term vs short-term opioids for chronic musculoskeletal pain may be at increased risk for menopause and abnormal menstruation, according to a study published in European Journal of Pain. Whereas many studies have suggested that long-term opioid therapy can harm the male reproductive system, little has been reported on the association between opioid prescription and reproductive dysfunction […]
Read MoreWhen patients are prescribed opioids in risky ways, their chance of dying increases and their odds of death go higher as the number of risky opioid prescriptions increase, according to a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Studying prescription records for residents of Massachusetts over a 5-year period, researchers identified 6 types of […]
Read MoreFirst introduced to the medical community in 2012, the Ariadne Labs Operating Room Crisis Checklists have been shown to provide a significant boost to the completeness of clinician response to operating room (OR) critical events. Yet success depends on comprehensive implementation. Now, however, a collaboration between Ariadne and Stanford School of Medicine has resulted in […]
Read MoreAuthors: Sofie Højlund, M.D. et al Anesthesiology November 5, 2018. What We Already Know about This Topic: Recurrent manifestations of anaphylaxis after treatment, termed biphasic reactions, are estimated to occur in 1 to 23% of reactions However, little is known about the incidence, triggers, symp toms, and management of biphasic reactions What This Article Tells Us […]
Read MoreRodriguez RM et al. Ann Emerg Med 2018 Oct 1 Many patients with small hemothoraces or pneumothoraces were observed without tube thoracostomy. Treatment recommendations for hemothorax and pneumothorax were codified when most of these injuries were identified with plain films. However, increased use of computed tomography (CT) allows detection of smaller injuries, raising the question of which […]
Read MoreAnother example on why you can’t trust insurance companies. By Harris Meyer In an unusual enforcement action against an insurer for out-of-network billing, Humana will pay Texas a $700,000 fine for failing to maintain an adequate number of in-network anesthesiologists at its contracted hospitals in four counties. It’s the latest development in a running national battle over surprise […]
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