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AUTHOR: KAREN KNOPS, MD Studies show that when people know what palliative care is, they want it. Marketing genius Seth Godin talks about offering services that are “remarkable” — so good that a person would cross the street to tell a friend. Palliative care has that kind of value, so why doesn’t our message travel […]
Read MoreAuthor: Ed Cara Gizmodo If sharks and sunburns don’t scare you at the beach, perhaps this will: According to preliminary research out this week, it only takes a 10-minute swim in the ocean to get your skin covered in a fresh coat of bacteria. While that’s not necessarily bad, some of these bacteria could be […]
Read MoreAnesthesiology News Theresa Bowling, MD Director of Regional Anesthesia, Integrated Anesthesia Associates, Fairfield Division, Shelton, Connecticut, and Assistant Professor, Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University, North Haven, Connecticut Introduction Enhanced recovery pathways (ERPs) have been shown to reduce costs and improve outcomes in nearly all surgical specialties, including shortening length of […]
Read MoreAuthors: Zeng C et al. JAMA 2019 Mar 12 Mortality was higher with tramadol than with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. The opioid agonist tramadol often is prescribed for patients with osteoarthritis pain because it is thought to be safer than opioids or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). To assess tramadol’s safety, researchers used a U.K. general practice database […]
Read MoreBy Erik MacLaren, PhD Patients who underwent the minimally invasive lumbar decompression (MILD) procedure for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) found significant improvement in function and pain, with no serious procedure-related adverse events (AEs) after 2 years, according to results of the prospective MiDAS ENCORE study presented at the 35th Annual Meeting of the American Academy […]
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