Authors: Gisèle Pickering, M.D., Ph.D., D.Pharm. et al Anesthesiology 7 2020, Vol.133, 154-164. Background: Ketamine is often used for the management of refractory chronic pain. There is, however, a paucity of trials exploring its analgesic effect several weeks after intravenous administration or in association with magnesium. The authors hypothesized that ketamine in neuropathic pain may provide pain […]
Read MoreAuthor: Stephen Freiberg, MD Yahoo!Life Want to know how an anesthesiologist can make birthing another human more tolerable? Then allow me to address one of the areas where I receive the most questions, both from patients but also friends and families: epidurals. Specifically, lumbar epidurals. More specifically, lumbar epidural catheters. Even more specifically, lumbar epidural catheters for labor. […]
Read MoreAuthor:Tony Mira Summary COVID continues to have an impact on anesthesia practices. A review of our clients’ case volumes during the pandemic provides a picture of disparity, with some groups still grappling with the effects of the virus and others ramping back up to near normal case levels. This article provides insight on the current […]
Read MoreAuthor: Denise Baez DG Alert Post-mortem brain and pulmonary findings from patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-2019) have been detailed in 2 separate case studies. The first case series, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, showed hypoxic-ischaemic changes, but no encephalitis, meningitis, strokes, or changes in olfactory bulbs or tracts in the brains of 18 consecutive […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Wang, Shen-Chih MD, PhD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: May 2020 – Volume 130 – Issue 5 – p 1244-1254 BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular waveforms contain information for clinical diagnosis. By learning and organizing the subtle change of waveform morphology from large amounts of raw waveform data, unsupervised manifold learning helps delineate a high-dimensional structure and […]
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