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Author: Jordan Rau Kaiser Health News Hundreds of hospitals across the nation, including a number with sterling reputations for cutting-edge care, will be paid less by Medicare after the federal government pronounced that they had higher rates of infections and patient injuries than others. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Wednesday identified 786 hospitals that […]
Read MoreBy Jim Parker Hospice News Anesthesiologist and intensivist Silvia Perez-Protto, M.D., is leading the charge to standardize advance care planning processes in her institution. At Cleveland Clinic, she is director of the Center for End of Life Care and a faculty member at the Center for Excellence in Healthcare Communication. The center’s objective is to standardize […]
Read MoreAuthors: Clivio, Sara MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: November 2019 – Volume 129 – Issue 5 – p 1249-1255 BACKGROUND: It remains unclear to what extent intravenous lidocaine prevents cough and whether there is dose-responsiveness and risk of harm. METHODS: We searched electronic databases to January 1, 2017 for randomized trials comparing intravenous lidocaine […]
Read MoreAuthors: Hasselgren, Emma MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: November 2019 – Volume 129 – Issue 5 – p 1232-1239 BACKGROUND: Albumin may persist intravascularly for a shorter time in patients after major surgery than in healthy volunteers due to a surgery-induced breakdown (shedding) of the endothelial glycocalyx layer. METHODS: In this nonrandomized clinical trial, […]
Read MoreAuthor: Michael Vlessides Anesthesiology News Although peripheral nerve stimulation is commonly used to assess neuromuscular transmission when dosing neuromuscular blocking agents and reversal drugs, quantitative twitch monitors have been shown to be more accurate than palpation for measuring the train-of-four (TOF) ratio. But which type of monitor—mechanomyography, acceleromyography or electromyography—is most accurate? New research has […]
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