I thought our history nuts would enjoy this article. Author: A.J. Wright, MLS Anesthesiology News The American Civil War is almost as much a story of disease as it is one of armies and battles. The numbers are staggering. Current scholarship puts the total deaths in the war at more than 750,000. Over twice as […]
Read MoreAuthors: Sirirat Tribuddharat et al BMC Anesthesiology volume 20, Article number: 23 (2020) Background Sevoflurane is suitable for low-flow anesthesia (LFA). LFA needs a wash-in phase. The reported sevoflurane wash-in schemes lack simplicity, target coverage, and applicability. We proposed a one-step 1-1-8 wash-in scheme for sevoflurane LFA to be used with both N2O and Air. The objective of our […]
Read MoreAuthors: Eric S. Schwenk, MD et al Anesthesiology News Introduction The delivery of high-quality health care at the lowest possible cost is no longer an aspiration; it is the expectation. To illustrate this point, the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (or MIPS) developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has replaced the former fee-for-service […]
Read MoreAuthor: Naveed Saleh MD MS Anesthesiology News The recreational use of marijuana is currently legal in 11 states—Alaska, California, Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont and Washington—and also in Washington, D.C. Several other states allow marijuana use for medicinal reasons. State legislative changes that have legalized marijuana have brought both medical opportunities and […]
Read MoreBy Kelly Young Mortality from drug use (illicit drugs and misused medications) in the U.S. may be double previous estimates, according to a modeling study in PLoS One. Rather than only relying on drug-coded deaths (e.g., drug poisonings and drug-coded mental disorders), the study tried to take into account excess mortality from other causes related to […]
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