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Uncategorized Published - 20 February, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
1 in 4 drug OD involves kids or teens

Author: Alan Mozes HealthDay  More than a quarter of all opioid overdoses in the United States involve teenagers, and a full fifth of those cases were likely suicide attempts, new research shows. The findings follow an in-depth analysis of nearly 754,000 American opioid poisoning cases that occurred between 2005 and 2018. All had been reported […]

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Uncategorized Published - 19 February, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Characteristics of Dexmedetomidine Postconditioning in the Field of Myocardial Ischemia–Reperfusion Injury

AUTHORS: Bunte, Sebastian MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: January 2020 – Volume 130 – Issue 1 – p 90-98 BACKGROUND:  Timing and onset of myocardial ischemia are mostly unpredictable. Therefore, postconditioning could be an effective cardioprotective intervention. Because ischemic postconditioning is an invasive and not practicable treatment, pharmacological postconditioning would be a more suitable […]

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Uncategorized Published - 19 February, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Assessment of Fluid Responsiveness in Prone Neurosurgical Patients Undergoing Protective Ventilation: Role of Dynamic Indices, Tidal Volume Challenge, and End-Expiratory Occlusion Test

AUTHORS: Messina, Antonio MD, PhD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: March 2020 – Volume 130 – Issue 3 – p 752-761 BACKGROUND:  In patients in the prone position, the reliability of pulse pressure variation and stroke volume variation (PPV and SVV) and the use of functional hemodynamic tests to predict fluid responsiveness have not previously […]

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Uncategorized Published - 19 February, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Why health care AI can’t replace medicine’s human component

Author: Andis Robeznieks AMA The AMA deliberately uses the term augmented intelligence (AI)—rather than the more common term “artificial intelligence”—when referring to machine-learning computer algorithms that hold the potential to produce dramatic breakthroughs for health care research, population health risk-stratification and diagnostic support. HIT trends in health care And there’s a good reason for that. “In health […]

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Uncategorized Published - 19 February, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Orthopedic Surgeons’ Estimates of Opioid Consumption Following TKA Found Highly Variable

Author: Michael Vlessides Anesthesiology News A survey has uncovered wide variability in how orthopedic surgeons interpret their patients’ postoperative opioid consumption after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). The survey, performed at Stanford Health Care, also found that, on average, surgeons are quite accurate when estimating their patients’ true perioperative opioid use. “This research originated from a […]

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