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Author: Jessie Hellmann The Hill President Biden and Congress are coming under pressure from advocates to address a public health crisis that has been overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic: rising drug overdose deaths. While most attention and government resources have been focused on COVID-19, the overdose crisis has worsened as people struggle with job losses, isolation […]
Read MoreDG Journal Club AUTHORS: Jinlei Li, Feng Dai et al. Clin J Pain. 2021 Feb OBJECTIVES Adequate pain control after total hip arthroplasty is essential for patient satisfaction and surgical outcome. METHODS A retrospective study with before and after design was performed in 210 elective total hip arthroplasty patients. Control group (N=132) received spinal anesthesia […]
Read MoreDG Journal Club Mohamad El Moheb, Kelsey Han et al. World J Surg. 2021 Feb BACKGROUND In resource-limited countries, open appendectomy is still performed under general anesthesia (GA) or neuraxial anesthesia (NA). We sought to compare the postoperative outcomes of appendectomy under NA versus GA. METHODS We conducted a post hoc analysis of the International […]
Read MoreDG Journal Club AUTHORS: Yi Chen, Lili Zou et al. Pharmacotherapy. 2021 Feb BACKGROUND Prophylactic norepinephrine infusion effectively lowers the incidence of postspinal anesthesia hypotension. The optimal prophylactic dose of norepinephrine remains undefined. The purpose of this study was to investigate the optimal prophylactic dose of norepinephrine to prevent postspinal anesthesia hypotension in patients undergoing […]
Read MoreAuthor: Kara Grant MedPage Physician mothers are experiencing significant rates of moderate to severe anxiety during the COVID-19 crisis, with frontline workers and informal caregivers reporting the highest rates of anxiety. Of the more than 1,800 respondents surveyed from the Physician Moms Group on Facebook, 41% had scores that put them above the Generalized Anxiety […]
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