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This was copied from an email sent by ASA today. We have some early data from last week’s survey of groups who have been dropped mid-contract by their insurance carriers in the last six months. We created the survey because we suspected carriers are doing this as a tactic to help get insurance-friendly surprise medical […]
Read MoreAuthor: Carin A. Hagberg, MD, FASA Anesthesiology News Editor’s note: A key of all abbreviations and acronyms appears below. Management of the difficult airway remains one of the most relevant and challenging clinical situations encountered by anesthesia practitioners, as major adverse consequences can occur if the airway is not secured in a timely fashion. This […]
Read MoreSpinal anesthesia may be safer than general anesthesia for people with Parkinson’s disease undergoing surgery, causing fewer post-operative complications, including a risk of death, a small study suggests. The study, “Spinal versus General Anesthesia for Patients with Parkinson’s Disease,” was published in the International Journal of General Medicine. Anesthesia temporarily blocks nerve sensation, making it indispensable for many surgeries […]
Read MoreAuthor: Michael Vlessides Anesthesiology News Clinicians searching for a safe and effective way to decrease postoperative opioid use without sacrificing analgesia after ambulatory surgery may find aid in systemic lidocaine, according to a new meta-analysis. Researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University concluded that while systemic lidocaine had no effect on postoperative nausea and […]
Read MoreAuthor: Steven Reinberg HealthDay News In another sign of just how bad the U.S. opioid abuse epidemic has become, a new study finds family members often steal painkillers from dying relatives in hospice care. In a survey of 371 hospices, 31 percent reported at least one case in which drugs were taken from a patient […]
Read MoreI thought our history nuts would enjoy this article. Author: A.J. Wright, MLS Anesthesiology News The American Civil War is almost as much a story of disease as it is one of armies and battles. The numbers are staggering. Current scholarship puts the total deaths in the war at more than 750,000. Over twice as […]
Read MoreAuthors: Sirirat Tribuddharat et al BMC Anesthesiology volume 20, Article number: 23 (2020) Background Sevoflurane is suitable for low-flow anesthesia (LFA). LFA needs a wash-in phase. The reported sevoflurane wash-in schemes lack simplicity, target coverage, and applicability. We proposed a one-step 1-1-8 wash-in scheme for sevoflurane LFA to be used with both N2O and Air. The objective of our […]
Read MoreAuthors: Eric S. Schwenk, MD et al Anesthesiology News Introduction The delivery of high-quality health care at the lowest possible cost is no longer an aspiration; it is the expectation. To illustrate this point, the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (or MIPS) developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has replaced the former fee-for-service […]
Read MoreAuthor: Naveed Saleh MD MS Anesthesiology News The recreational use of marijuana is currently legal in 11 states—Alaska, California, Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont and Washington—and also in Washington, D.C. Several other states allow marijuana use for medicinal reasons. State legislative changes that have legalized marijuana have brought both medical opportunities and […]
Read MoreBy Kelly Young Mortality from drug use (illicit drugs and misused medications) in the U.S. may be double previous estimates, according to a modeling study in PLoS One. Rather than only relying on drug-coded deaths (e.g., drug poisonings and drug-coded mental disorders), the study tried to take into account excess mortality from other causes related to […]
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