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Uncategorized Published - 20 May, 2021    By - Dr Clemens
Prevention of Cardiac Surgery–Associated Acute Kidney Injury by Implementing the KDIGO Guidelines in High-Risk Patients Identified by Biomarkers

AUTHORS: Zarbock, Alexander MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: March 8, 2021 BACKGROUND: Prospective, single-center trials have shown that the implementation of the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) recommendations in high-risk patients significantly reduced the development of acute kidney injury (AKI) after surgery. We sought to evaluate the feasibility of implementing a bundle of supportive […]

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Uncategorized Published - 20 May, 2021    By - Dr Clemens
Effects of preoperative Carbamazepine treatment on Microvascular Decompression for Classical Trigeminal Neuralgia

DG Journal Club AUTHORS: Dixiang Song, Jianguo Li et al. World Neurosurg. 2021 Feb 26 BACKGROUND Carbamazepine (CBZ) is the first-line therapy for Trigeminal Neuralgia (TGN), and Microvascular Decompression (MVD) is considered as an effective surgical treatment for TGN. But the effect of preoperative CBZ treatment for MVD outcome is not clear. METHODS A total […]

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Uncategorized Published - 20 May, 2021    By - Dr Clemens
Epidural analgesia during labor and its optimal initiation time-points: A real-world study on 400 Chinese nulliparas

DG Journal Club AUTHORS: Ying Zha, Xun Gong et al. Medicine (Baltimore). 2021 Mar 5; 100(9): e24923 ABSTRACT Recent research has suggested that 6 cm of cervical dilation should be the threshold for the active labor phase, and it has confirmed that epidural analgesia (EA) is a safe method of pain relief during labor. However, the […]

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Uncategorized Published - 20 May, 2021    By - Dr Clemens
Timeline of pain before dementia diagnosis: a 27-year follow-up study

DG Journal Club Authors: Sushmithadev Kumaradev, Aurore Fayosse et al. Pain. 2021 May 1; 162(5): 1578-1585 ABSTRACT This study examines the importance of length of follow-up on the association between pain and incident dementia. Further objective was to characterize pain trajectories in the 27 years preceding dementia diagnosis and compare them with those among persons […]

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Uncategorized Published - 19 May, 2021    By - Dr Clemens
Perioperative Ulnar Neuropathy: A Contemporary Estimate of Incidence and Risk Factors

AUTHORS: Pulos, Bridget P. MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: May 2021 – Volume 132 – Issue 5 – p 1429-1437 BACKGROUND:  Retrospective and prospective studies 2 decades ago from the authors’ institution reported the incidence of perioperative ulnar neuropathy persisting for at least several months in a noncardiac adult surgical population to be between 30 […]

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