Author: Dr. Clemens

Uncategorized Published - 20 August, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Unreported robot surgery injuries open new questions for FDA

Sheena Wilson, 45, underwent robotic surgery for a hysterectomy in May, she didn’t know the Intuitive Surgical Inc. system used by her doctor was previously tied to a variety of injuries for the same procedure. Her rectum was badly burned in the operation, said Wilson, a mother of two from Parlin, N.J. Now, she is […]

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Uncategorized Published - 20 August, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
20 States with Top Physician Retention

This is not specific for our speciality but I wanted it to share with our readers since we dependent on referring physicians. The following states have the most physicians retained from undergraduate and graduate medical education, combined. These percentages reflect the number of physicians who — out of a pool of physicians who graduated from […]

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Uncategorized Published - 20 August, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Global Anesthesia Devices Market to Reach $8.1B by 2014

The global market for anesthesia devices is estimated at $7.4 billion in 2013 and is expected to grow to $8.1 billion in 2014, according to a report released by Research and Markets. Maintaining a compound annual growth rate of about 7.5 percent between 2010 and 2020, the worldwide anesthesia devices market is further projected to […]

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Uncategorized Published - 20 August, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Change in Approach to Postop Nausea/Vomiting May Be Due

Most adults who are at risk for postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) after general anesthesia need more prophylactic antiemetics than current guidelines recommend, according to a new study that used a national database. The large study found that patients who had ambulatory surgery were much less likely to need a rescue antiemetic in the postanesthesia […]

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Uncategorized Published - 19 August, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Tele-Care Intervention Improves Chronic Pain

A telephone-delivered intervention, which included automated symptom monitoring, produced clinically meaningful improvements in chronic musculoskeletal pain compared with usual care, according to a study published in the July 16 issue of JAMA. Kurt Kroenke, MD, Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indiana University School of Medicine, and the Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, and colleagues randomised 250 patients […]

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Uncategorized Published - 19 August, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Maximising Pain Control During Labour May Reduce Risk of Postpartum Depression

Controlling pain during childbirth and post delivery may reduce the risk of postpartum depression, according to an editorial published in the journal Anesthesia & Analgesia. The editorial is based on a new Chinese study that found women who had pain control with epidural anaesthesia during a vaginal delivery had a much lower risk for postpartum […]

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Uncategorized Published - 19 August, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
General Anesthesia Linked to Mortality in Stroke Patients

Although general anesthesia and conscious sedation seem to equally affect functional independence at discharge in patients with acute ischemic stroke undergoing endovascular intervention therapy, patients who received general anesthesia experienced significantly greater mortality than their counterparts, researchers have found. Whether this difference is directly attributable to anesthesia type, however, is unclear, as the duration of […]

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Uncategorized Published - 19 August, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Steroids Fail Another Test in Bypass Surgery

Giving steroids to reduce inflammation during cardiopulmonary bypass has no benefit, and may in fact harm patients who receive the drugs, new research shows. An international study of more than 7,500 patients, the largest of its kind to date, is the latest to find that the prophylactic administration of IV steroids during bypass procedures does […]

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Uncategorized Published - 19 August, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Nerve Blocks Linked to Improved Tissue Oxygenation

Muscle oxygenation in patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty may be positively affected by neuraxial blockade, a phenomenon that may confer s everal long-term benefits, researchers have found. The pilot study, by a team of American and Austrian researchers, showed that muscle oxygenation decreased more in the upper than the lower extremity, which may be the […]

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Uncategorized Published - 19 August, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Weather May Not Affect Low Back Pain

Weather factors such as temperature, relative humidity, air pressure, and precipitation did not increase the risk for a low back pain episode, and higher wind and wind gust speed had a minimal effect, according to an Australian case-crossover study on July 10 in Arthritis Care & Research. “Many patients believe that weather impacts their pain […]

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