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Uncategorized Published - 7 October, 2019    By - Dr Clemens
Patients Receiving Ketamine Plus Dexmedetomidine Combo Need Monitoring

Author: Thomas Rosenthal Anesthesiology News Surgical patients who receive analgesic doses of ketamine together with dexmedetomidine should be closely monitored before and immediately after they leave the hospital because of the potential neurocognitive and behavioral effects of the drug combination, a study has found. “At analgesic doses required for pain relief, ketamine administered in combination […]

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Uncategorized Published - 7 October, 2019    By - Dr Clemens
Association of General Anesthesia vs Procedural Sedation With Functional Outcome Among Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke Undergoing Thrombectomy

Authors: Silvia Schönenberger, MD et al JAMA. 2019;322(13):1283-1293. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.11455 Question  Is there a difference in functional outcome at 3 months between patients who receive general anesthesia or procedural sedation during stroke thrombectomy? Findings  In this individual patient data meta-analysis of 3 randomized clinical trials that included 368 patients with acute ischemic stroke in the anterior circulation, the use […]

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Uncategorized Published - 7 October, 2019    By - Dr Clemens
Treatment for chronic neuropathic pain gets to the brain via a novel route, without surgery

Author: Ellen Goldbaum University at Buffalo University at Buffalo researchers who previously discovered how chronic neuropathic pain arises in the brain have now developed a treatment to block it. The research conducted by scientists in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB was published online July 31 in the journal Brain, Behavior, and […]

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Uncategorized Published - 7 October, 2019    By - Dr Clemens
New Round of Medicare Readmission Penalties Hits 2,583 Hospitals

Author: Maria Fabrizio KHN Medicare cut payments to 2,583 hospitals continuing the Affordable Care Act’s eight-year campaign to financially pressure hospitals into reducing the number of patients who return for a second stay within a month. The severity and broad application of the penalties, which Medicare estimates will cost hospitals $563 million over a year, […]

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Uncategorized Published - 4 October, 2019    By - Dr Clemens
Practice Pattern Variation in the Use of Transesophageal Echocardiography for Open Valve Cardiac Surgery

Authors: Emily J. MacKay, DO et al Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia January 2019 Volume 33, Issue 1, Pages 118–133 Objective The authors sought to assess for the presence of practice variation in the use of intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) for open cardiac valve surgery. Design This study was a retrospective cohort analysis. Setting The […]

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