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AUTHORS: Bombardieri, Anna Maria MD, PhD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: November 2019 – Volume 129 – Issue 5 – p 1291-1297 BACKGROUND: Unintended intraoperative awareness with recall (AWR) is a potential complication of general anesthesia. Patients typically report recollections of (1) hearing sounds or conversations, (2) being unable to breathe or move, (3), feeling pain, […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Karamnov, Sergey MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: August 2019 BACKGROUND: Currently available 2-dimensional (2D) echocardiographic methods for accurately assessing the mitral valve orifice area (MVA) after mitral valve repair (MVr) are limited due to its complex 3-dimensional (3D) geometry. We compared repaired MVAs obtained with commonly used 2D and 3D echocardiographic methods to a 3D […]
Read MoreAuthor: Michael Vlessides Anesthesiology News A modified STOP-Bang algorithm designed specifically to detect severe cases of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) does not seem to offer significant improvement over the questionnaire’s original approach, Belgian researchers have concluded. The investigators also found that the DES-OSA score is the best of the commonly used OSA scales when it […]
Read MoreAuthor: Christine E. Whitten, MD Anesthesiology News Dr. Whitten is the author of “Anyone Can Intubate: A Step–by–Step Guide to Intubation and Airway Management” and “Pediatric Airway Management: A Step–by–Step Guide,” both from Mooncat Publications. She also blogs about airway management at AirwayJedi.com, and has created instructional DVDs on the topic. She reported no other relevant financial […]
Read MoreA study published in the Annals of Surgery could help clinicians mitigate that risk by identifying which patients are more likely to continue to use opioids after their immediate recovery period. “There is not much research on which surgical patients require more or less opioids, despite a push in the field for personalised medicine,” said Daniel Larach, […]
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