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Uncategorized Published - 27 January, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Opioids for chronic low back pain: An updated systematic review and meta‐analysis of efficacy, tolerability and safety in randomized placebo‐controlled studies of at least 4 weeks of double‐blind duration

Authors: Frank Petzke et al European Journal of Pain December 2019 Background and Objective This updated systematic review evaluated the efficacy, tolerability and safety of opioids compared to placebo in non‐malignant chronic low back pain. Databases and Data Treatment Clinicaltrials.gov, CENTRAL, MEDLINE and PsycINFO were searched from October 2013 to May 2019. Randomized controlled trials […]

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Uncategorized Published - 24 January, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Neuromuscular blocking agents for tracheal intubation in pediatric patients

Authors: Luc E. Vanlinthout et al Pediatric Anesthesia Dec 2019 Background The benefit of using neuromuscular blocking agents to facilitate tracheal intubation in children remains unclear due to variations in design, treatments, and results among trials. By combining the available evidence, we aimed to establish whether scientific findings are consistent and can be generalized across […]

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Uncategorized Published - 24 January, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Comparison of ropivacaine combined with sufentanil for epidural anesthesia and spinal-epidural anesthesia in labor analgesia

Authors: Yanshuang Wang et al BMC Anesthesiology volume 20, Article number: 1 (2020) Background To compare the application and efficacy of ropivacaine combined with sufentanil for continuous epidural anesthesia (CEA) and combined spinal-epidural anesthesia (CSEA) in labor analgesia. Methods Three hundred sixty pregnant women requesting labor analgesia from October 2017 to August 2018 were selected retrospectively. According to the anesthetic […]

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Uncategorized Published - 24 January, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
A Mea Culpa on CDC Opioid Guideline

Author: Nikki Kean Anesthesiology News Dosing, tapering among issues of concern Almost from the day it was released in 2016, the “CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain” has triggered criticism from many patients and providers. Nearly three years later, the agency finally seems to be listening, with two publications in April that take […]

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Uncategorized Published - 24 January, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Study Links Incident Heart Disease to Increased Risk of Kidney Failure

Author: Patrick Campbell MD Magazine A new study, led by investigators from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, has discovered an alarming, potential link between cardiovascular disease and a person’s risk of developing kidney failure. The community-based study, which included more than 9000 US adults and a median follow-up of 17.5 years, found […]

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