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Wayne State University A team led by a medical student from the Wayne State University School of Medicine has published a study that reveals how more than 3,000 anesthesiologists in the United States assess and manage patient anxiety before surgery. “Assessing and Reducing Preoperative Anxiety in Adult Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study of 3,661 Members of […]
Read MoreAuthors: Andis Robeznieks American Medical Association Serology tests used to detect the presence of COVID-19 antibodies should not be used to guide individual decisions that could put a person at higher risk of exposure and infection. That is the clear message that AMA experts are sending to Congress and the nation. “We know that many […]
Read MoreAuthor: Michael Walter Cardiovascular Business The use of conscious sedation (CS) during transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is associated with better patient outcomes, including a decrease in mortality, than general anesthesia (GA). A team of researchers compared the two methods, sharing its results in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions. “An integral component of minimalist TAVR is the use of CS instead […]
Read MoreAuthor: John Anderer Journal of Hospital Infection Many Americans have avoided visiting emergency rooms and urgent care clinics during the COVID-19 pandemic in fear of catching the virus. Of course, this behavior poses a major health risk in and of itself, but an eye-opening new study lends credence to such a mindset. Researchers from University College […]
Read MoreBy Amy Orciari Herman NEJM Journal Watch Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP, FHM Check out some of the latest COVID-19 news: Pooling patient samples: A modeling study in JAMA Network Open supports the feasibility of pool testing for COVID-19. With pool testing, samples from several patients are combined and tested at once […]
Read MoreAuthors: Gisèle Pickering, M.D., Ph.D., D.Pharm. et al Anesthesiology 7 2020, Vol.133, 154-164. Background: Ketamine is often used for the management of refractory chronic pain. There is, however, a paucity of trials exploring its analgesic effect several weeks after intravenous administration or in association with magnesium. The authors hypothesized that ketamine in neuropathic pain may provide pain […]
Read MoreAuthor: Stephen Freiberg, MD Yahoo!Life Want to know how an anesthesiologist can make birthing another human more tolerable? Then allow me to address one of the areas where I receive the most questions, both from patients but also friends and families: epidurals. Specifically, lumbar epidurals. More specifically, lumbar epidural catheters. Even more specifically, lumbar epidural catheters for labor. […]
Read MoreAuthor:Tony Mira Summary COVID continues to have an impact on anesthesia practices. A review of our clients’ case volumes during the pandemic provides a picture of disparity, with some groups still grappling with the effects of the virus and others ramping back up to near normal case levels. This article provides insight on the current […]
Read MoreAuthor: Denise Baez DG Alert Post-mortem brain and pulmonary findings from patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-2019) have been detailed in 2 separate case studies. The first case series, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, showed hypoxic-ischaemic changes, but no encephalitis, meningitis, strokes, or changes in olfactory bulbs or tracts in the brains of 18 consecutive […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Wang, Shen-Chih MD, PhD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: May 2020 – Volume 130 – Issue 5 – p 1244-1254 BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular waveforms contain information for clinical diagnosis. By learning and organizing the subtle change of waveform morphology from large amounts of raw waveform data, unsupervised manifold learning helps delineate a high-dimensional structure and […]
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