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Uncategorized Published - 24 April, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Safeguarding Perioperative Brain Health: Attainable Goal Needs Multidisciplinary Team

Author: Michael Vlessides Anesthesiology News Protecting the brain health of elderly patients who work their way through the perioperative process is a lofty, but attainable, goal, according to the work of a multidisciplinary team of clinicians at Keck School of Medicine of USC. Yet, as they reported at the 2019 annual meeting of the American […]

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Uncategorized Published - 24 April, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Tapering Project Results in Little Change In Pain Scores After Opioid Removal

Author: Bob Kronemyer Anesthesiology News Care plans that include opioids provide limited effectiveness in treating persistent pain, according to a project conducted at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. “Consequently, first-line drugs for the treatment of persistent pain should almost always be nonopioids,” said one of the project leaders, Debbie Fabry, BS, RN-BC, SANE, a nurse manager at […]

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Uncategorized Published - 23 April, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Intraoperative Hyperglycemia Associated With Post-op Delirium

Author: Michael Vlessides Anesthesiology News Intraoperative hyperglycemia is independently associated with postoperative delirium but not postoperative cognitive dysfunction, according to the results of a new study. The German researchers behind the trial also found that the relative time spent in hyperglycemia may play a role in the development of postoperative delirium. “We know that postoperative […]

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Uncategorized Published - 23 April, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Hep C infections triple in U.S., CDC recommends most adults get screened

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now recommending that virtually all American adults undergo screening for hepatitis C, citing data that shows the number of cases nationally has tripled since 2009. In two separate reports released Thursday, the agency estimated that more than 50,000 Americans were diagnosed with the acute form of the virus, […]

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Uncategorized Published - 23 April, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Lower Post-op Opioid Use Has Little Effect on Pain Scores After TKA

Author: Anna DeNelsky Anesthesiology News Data from the Opioid Safety Initiative implemented at the Veterans Health Administration revealed that a reduction in patients’ prescription opioids after knee replacement surgery did not translate to a significant improvement in pain scores, according to new research published in Anesthesiology (2019;131[2]:369-380). Chronic pain is frequent in patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty […]

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