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Uncategorized Published - 6 November, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Dr. Alok Sharan: Coronavirus, cost savings will speed adoption of awake spine surgery

Author: Alan Condon Becker’s Spine Review Alok Sharan, MD, was recently appointed director of spine and orthopedics at NJ Spine and Wellness in East Brunswick, N.J. An early adopter of the spine surgery that doesn’t require general anesthesia, Dr. Sharan has completed 130 cases since he started performing the procedure in 2017. He spoke to Becker’s […]

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Uncategorized Published - 6 November, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Dissociative and Analgesic Properties of Ketamine Are Independent

Authors: Jacob Gitlin, B.S. et al Anesthesiology November 2020, Vol. 133, 1021–1028. Background Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic with analgesic properties. Ketamine’s analgesic properties have been suggested to result from its dissociative properties. To the authors’ knowledge, this postulate is unsubstantiated. The authors hypothesize that the dissociative and analgesic properties of ketamine are independent. Methods The […]

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Uncategorized Published - 6 November, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Study Weighs Up Efficacy of Chronic Pain Medications

University of Missouri More than 20 million people in the U.S. suffer neuropathic pain. At least 25% of those cases are classified as unexplained and considered cryptogenic sensory polyneuropathy (CSPN). There is no information to guide a physician’s drug choices to treat CSPN, but a researcher from the University of Missouri School of Medicine and […]

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Uncategorized Published - 6 November, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Evidence Lacking for Most Fibromyalgia Treatments, Meta-Analysis Finds

By Amy Orciari Herman Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Jaye Elizabeth Hefner, MD NEJM Journal Watch Evidence is insufficient to support most treatments for fibromyalgia, according to a meta-analysis in JAMA Internal Medicine. Researchers examined data from over 220 randomized trials among nearly 30,000 people with fibromyalgia. High-quality evidence suggested a statistically significant benefit for […]

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Uncategorized Published - 5 November, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
COVID-19 lung damage caused by persistence of abnormal cells

DG Alerts A study published in EBioMedicine shows unique characteristics of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that may explain why patients suffer from severe, prolonged coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Rossana Bussani, MD, University of Trieste,Trieste, Italy, and colleagues analysed the organs of 41 patients who died of COVID-19 at the University Hospital of Trieste. The […]

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