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Authors: Jason D. Walls, MD; Mark S. Weiss, MD Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Volume 34, No. 1 • June 2019 SUMMARY:Non-operating room anesthesia (NORA) comprises an increasing share of modern anesthesia practice. NORA presents setting-specific challenges to safe anesthesia care, but protocols and interdisciplinary teamwork can facilitate safe, efficient, and cost-effective procedural care in the NORA […]
Read MoreAuthor: Linda Carroll Reuters Health When it comes to common gastrointestinal operations, such as weight loss surgery, a U.S. hospital’s ranking may not equate with better outcomes, a new study suggests. For patients undergoing several common minimally-invasive abdominal surgeries, rates of death and serious complications at hospitals ranked high in the U.S. News and World […]
Read MoreBy Amy Orciari Herman Positive airway pressure is associated with lower mortality in obese patients with severe obstructive sleep apnea, according to findings in JAMA Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery. Using data from an observational study, researchers matched some 80 obese patients with OSA who were prescribed positive airway pressure to 310 who were not. During […]
Read MoreBy Kelly Young Drinking a bottle of wine a week (less than one drink a day) is equivalent to smoking 5 to 10 cigarettes in terms of the absolute increase in cancer risk, according to a study in BMC Public Health. Using health survey and lifetime-cancer-risk data from the U.K., researchers report that among men who […]
Read MoreThis is for our pain practitioners to know about. By Joe Elia A study of gabapentinoid use finds pregabalin — but not gabapentin — associated with increased suicidality in young adult patients, according to a report in The BMJ. The drug class has anticonvulsant properties but is increasingly prescribed as an analgesic. Researchers used Swedish national […]
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