Anesthesiology News Pain and the Brain Joseph F. Answine, MD, FASA Clinical Associate Professor Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine Penn State College of Medicine Hershey, Pennsylvania Partner, Riverside Anesthesia Associates Staff Anesthesiologist UPMC Pinnacle Hospital System Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Pain is not only difficult to treat but difficult to understand because it involves many complex […]
Read MoreDoctors already are supposed to screen new mothers for depression, to find those who need prompt care. Now they’re also being urged to identify women at risk — because counseling could prevent depression from setting in. Up to 1 in 7 women experience what’s called perinatal depression, depression during pregnancy or after childbirth, according to […]
Read MoreEven as hospitals try to cut back on prescribing powerful but risky antibiotics for their patients, a new study shows that many of those patients still head home with prescriptions for those same drugs — increasing their risk of everything from “superbug” infections to torn tendons. In fact, the hospitals that said they are actively […]
Read MoreA Retrospective Cohort Study AUTHORS: Yilmaz, Huseyin O., MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: November 2018 – Volume 127 – Issue 5 – p 1129–1136 BACKGROUND: Hypotension compromises local tissue perfusion, thereby reducing tissue oxygenation. Hypotension might thus be expected to promote infection. Hypotension on surgical wards, while usually less severe than intraoperative hypotension, is common and […]
Read MoreBy Ryan Prior, CNN Our long-held notions of boys as being more stoic and girls as being more expressive may lead Americans to overrate the severity of male physical pain. A recent study by psychologists at Yale University found that adults, when presented with imagery of a child’s finger being pricked, considered the child to be […]
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