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Author: Michael Walter Cardiovascular Business News Data from patients with established cardiovascular disease (CVD) can be used to predict their lifetime and 10-year risk of multiple cancers, according to new findings presented at ESC Congress 2020. The study, published in JACC: CardioOncology, focused on prediction models for total cancer, colorectal cancer and lung cancer. “Estimating individualized probabilities […]
Read MoreBy Brian P. Dunleavy UPI Survival among heart patients on a waiting list for a transplant has improved greatly over the past 30 years, a new study has found. Illustration courtesy Abiomed More than two-thirds of people on a waiting list for heart transplants survive for at least one year until a donor organ becomes […]
Read MoreAuthor: Moira McCarthy Healthline More knee and hip replacement surgeries are being done on an outpatient basis, especially in this COVID-19 era. Surgeons say the fact patients are at home forces them to move around more and do their physical therapy, speeding their recovery. They note that the outpatient surgery isn’t for everybody. A patient needs […]
Read MoreMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL Inhaled nitric oxide (NO) can be a valuable adjunct respiratory therapy for pregnant women with severe and critical COVID-19, a team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has found. The delivery of the therapeutic gas to six COVID-19 pregnant patients admitted to MGH, as described in a paper in Obstetrics & […]
Read MoreBy Brian Dunleavy UPI The CDC’s ‘Tips’ campaign has helped inspire more than 1 million smokers to quit, a new analysis found. More than 1 million American adults quit smoking between 2012 and 2018 after seeing messages from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “Tips From Former Smokers” campaign, according to figures released […]
Read MoreAuthors: Philip J. Peyton, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.B.S., F.A.N.Z.C.A. et al Anesthesiology August 2020, Vol. 133, 534–547. Background According to the “three-compartment” model of ventilation-perfusion () inequality, increased scatter in the lung under general anesthesia is reflected in increased alveolar deadspace fraction (Vda/Va) customarily measured using end-tidal to arterial (a-a) partial pressure gradients for carbon dioxide. a-a gradients […]
Read MoreAuthors: Wayne Simmons, DO; Dandan Feng, MD; Zhengliang Ma, MD; Xiaoping Gu, MD; Jeffrey Huang, MD Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Treatment of intraoperative malignant hyperthermia (MH) usually involves administration of IV dantrolene, which reduces the mortality from over 80% if untreated to less than 10%.1 When dantrolene is simply not available, physical and metabolic treatments must […]
Read MoreAuthor: Shinju Obara Journal of Anesthesia (2020) Abstract The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) disease [coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection] first appeared in December 2019 in China and is now spreading worldwide. Because SARS-CoV-2 can be transmitted via aerosols and surface contaminations of the environment, appropriate use of anesthesia machines and appropriate behavior in […]
Read MoreAuthor: L. A. McKeown tct/MD Good communication and teamwork before, during, and after are keys to minimizing the risk of stroke in patients undergoing cardiac and thoracic aortic surgery, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association (AHA). “I would be the happiest person on earth if this document is useless because […]
Read MoreBy Kelly Young NEJM Journal Watch Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD, and Richard Saitz, MD, MPH, FACP, DFASAM The World Health Organization recommends systemic corticosteroids to treat patients with severe and critical COVID-19. The guidance coincides with the publication of three randomized trials and a meta-analysis on corticosteroids in JAMA. The WHO recommends 6 mg of dexamethasone orally […]
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