Author: Dr. Clemens

Uncategorized Published - 4 November, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Anesthesia Management: Bad News, Good News for Fibromyalgia Drug

A new sublingual drug that specifically targets nonrestorative sleep, a key feature of fibromyalgia, failed to change average daily pain scores at week 12, the primary endpoint of the study, compared with placebo, a phase 2b trial shows. On the other hand, TNX-102 SL did lead to improvement in a number of secondary endpoints, including […]

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Uncategorized Published - 4 November, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Anesthesia Management: Take This Important Quiz: Are You a Better Manager or Leader?

This  was  not specialty for our specialty but I thought our readers in management would want to read it. The business world needs both great leaders and great managers, but most people don’t do both well. Take this quiz and find out which style is yours. The world is filled with managers and leaders. Both […]

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Uncategorized Published - 3 November, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Anesthesia Management: Will bundled payments kill innovation?

Although bundled payments show promise as a method for containing healthcare costs while improving quality, some industry experts have expressed concern that this new payment model will hold back innovation efforts, Rebecca Paradis, a senior health policy associate at the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation (a nonprofit, nonpartisan health policy institute), writes in Health […]

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Uncategorized Published - 3 November, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Anesthesia Management: Emory Anesthesiologists Offer Insight on Bracing for Ebola

Anesthesiologists can be counted on to properly staff and safely care for patients with Ebola, and they should be key players in planning for this possible, though unlikely, scenario at their hospitals, according to one anesthesiologist with experience with these challenges. With the latest transfer of an infected Dallas nurse, Emory University physicians and nurses […]

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Uncategorized Published - 3 November, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Anesthesia Management: 12 questions to answer if you’re serious about increasing job satisfaction

Back in 1968, Fredrick Herzberg wrote a piece for the Harvard Business Review called ” One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees?” in which he sought to disentangle factors that led to true job satisfaction from ones that led to dissatisfaction. Herzberg found that workers enjoyed achievement, recognition, the work itself, responsibility, promotion and […]

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Uncategorized Published - 3 November, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Anesthesia Management:  CEO pay growth outstrips other positions

I thought our readers would enjoy this since most of them practice in a hospital. Chief executive base pay continues to grow faster than other C-suite positions, according to the 2014 Hay Group Healthcare Compensation Study. Hay Group collected results from 128 integrated healthcare systems and subsystems and nearly 100 independent hospitals for the study. […]

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Uncategorized Published - 3 November, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Anesthesia Management: 10 things to consider when terminating an employee

This is for groups that also have employees other than their healthcare providers. Here are 10 things for employers to consider before terminating an employee. 1. Consider the reason: Position elimination versus performance issues As a fundamental proposition, the employer must be able to articulate the reason for terminating an employee. A good exercise for […]

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Uncategorized Published - 31 October, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Anesthesia Management: The new physician employment model and malpractice insurance: What you don’t know could cost you

In the fight to remain competitive in the new era of healthcare, hospitals are buying physician practices and hiring individual physicians as quickly as possible. But as more and more physicians become hospital employees, hospitals may not be taking a hard enough look at their new medical malpractice liabilities. These increased malpractice risks, combined with […]

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Uncategorized Published - 31 October, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Anesthesia Management: How much oxycodone is needed for adequate analgesia after breast cancer surgery: Effect of the OPRM1 118A greater than G polymorphism

Published in J Pain. 2014 Sep 16. pii: S1526-5900(14)00911-0 Authors: Cajanus K et al Abstract Most clinically used opioids are mu-opioid receptor agonists. Therefore, genetic variation of the OPRM1 gene that encodes the mu-opioid receptor is of great interest for understanding pain management. A polymorphism 118A greater than G (rs1799971) within the OPRM1 gene results […]

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Uncategorized Published - 31 October, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Anesthesia Management: Short- and long term effects of epidural analgesia on morbidity and mortality of esophageal cancer surgery

Published in Langenbecks Arch Surg. 2014 Sep Authors: Heinrich S et al PURPOSE: Perioperative regional anesthesia with consecutive reduction of intra- and postoperative systemic opioid requirements in order to improve oncological result after cancer surgery has only been addressed by a few reports. This hypothesis has never been proved in esophageal cancer with a long-term […]

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