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Author: Glenn Murphy, MD Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Careful intraoperative management of neuromuscular blockade may optimize patient recovery and improve postoperative outcomes. Four important articles in the February 2016 APSF Newsletter described why postoperative residual neuromuscular blockade (PRNB) was an important patient safety issue, and how appropriate dosing, monitoring, and reversal of neuromuscular blocking agents could reduce […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Mahanna-Gabrielli, Elizabeth MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: June 2020 – Volume 130 – Issue 6 – p 1516-1523 BACKGROUND: Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) and delirium are the most common perioperative cognitive complications in older adults undergoing surgery. A recent study of cardiac surgery patients suggests that physical frailty is a risk factor for […]
Read MoreAuthors: Josef Briegel, M.D. et al Anesthesiology November 2020, Vol. 133, 997–1006. Background In most patients having noncardiac surgery, blood pressure is measured with the oscillometric upper arm cuff method. Although the method is noninvasive and practical, it is known to overestimate intraarterial pressure in hypotension and to underestimate it in hypertension. A high-fidelity upper arm […]
Read MoreAuthor: Denise Baez DG Alerts Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has a prolonged and nonspecific disease course during pregnancy and in the 6 weeks after pregnancy, according to a study published in Obstetrics & Gynecology. Although the majority of the symptomatic women in the study who tested positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) had […]
Read MoreAuthor: Denise Baez DG Alert Patients with mild to moderate coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are highly unlikely to be infectious after day 10 of symptom onset, however, patients with severe disease may shed the virus for a longer period of time, according to a study published in the Journal of Infection. The findings come from […]
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