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AUTHORS: Aouad, Marie T. MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: December 2019 – Volume 129 – Issue 6 – p 1504-1511 BACKGROUND: Dexmedetomidine provides smooth and hemodynamically stable emergence at the expense of hypotension, delayed recovery, and sedation. We investigated the optimal dose of dexmedetomidine for prevention of cough, agitation, hypertension, tachycardia, and shivering, with […]
Read MoreBy American Osteopathic Association Hospitals can dramatically reduce the length of a patient’s stay (by up to 67%) when their provider teams hold integrated care conferences (ICCs), a daily meeting for providers to share information at once. However, the seemingly obvious concept is rarely implemented, according to researchers in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association. […]
Read MoreBy: Faye Flam Bloomberg The U.S. has a weirdly high maternal death rate. It’s a symptom of a sick health care system. The number of women dying of complications of pregnancy and childbirth is going down in all developed countries except the United States. New statistics released last week show that the U.S. maternal death rate has […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Oh, Tak Kyu MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: December 2019 – Volume 129 – Issue 6 – p 1494-1501 BACKGROUND: Postoperative hyperchloremia is known to be related to increases in mortality and morbidity after surgery. However, the relationship between preoperative hyperchloremia and hypochloremia and postoperative mortality and morbidity is not well established. Our […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Chow, Jonathan H. MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: December 2019 – Volume 129 – Issue 6 – p 1482-1491 BACKGROUND: Acute traumatic coagulopathy is common in trauma patients. Prompt diagnosis of hypofibrinogenemia allows for early treatment with cryoprecipitate or fibrinogen concentrate. At present, optimal cutoffs for diagnosing hypofibrinogenemia with kaolin thrombelastography (TEG) have […]
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