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Authors: Brooke Albright-Trainer, MD; Rakhi Dayal, MD; Aalok Agarwala, MD, MBA; Erin Pukenas, MD Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Vol 35 No 2 June 2020 SUMMARY:Effective leadership is necessary in medicine to foster an organizational culture that promotes patient safety. By fostering an environment of psychological safety that encourages others to feel safe communicating issues and […]
Read MoreBy Amy Orciari Herman NEJM Journal Watch Edited by André Sofair, MD, MPH Some 4% of U.S. women who gave birth in 2017 said they used marijuana during pregnancy, according to an MMWR report. Among the other findings, based on survey responses from roughly 6000 women in eight states: Nearly 10% reported use before pregnancy, and 5.5% did […]
Read MoreBy Kelly Young NEJM Journal Watch Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD Delivering preterm is associated with increased maternal mortality risk 40 years later, suggests a study in The BMJ. Using Swedish registries of 2 million women with singleton deliveries, researchers compared mortality among women who delivered preterm with those who delivered at term (39–41 weeks’ gestation). Overall, […]
Read MoreReviewed by James Ives, M.Psych. News Medical Life Sciences High intensity physical activity in early life might help maximise peak hip strength and prevent osteoporosis in later life, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open from researchers at the University of Bristol. The research, which analysed data from 2,569 participants of the Children of […]
Read MoreSkepticalScalpel.blogspot.com Greg Neal, former CEO of a Bristol, Tennessee hospital, was asked to resign after having been involved in a surgical procedure. He is not a licensed physician. A local newspaper published his statement about what happened. In part, it said: “Recently, at the invitation of a surgeon, I entered an operating room to observe a surgical […]
Read MoreAuthor: 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 […]
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