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By MOHANA RAVINDRANATH Information used to gauge opioid overdose risk is unregulated and used without patient consent. Companies are starting to sell “risk scores” to doctors, insurers and hospitals to identify patients at risk of opioid addiction or overdose, without patient consent and with little regulation of the kinds of personal information used to create the […]
Read MoreAnesthesiology News Kenneth D. Candido, MD Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery Departments of Anesthesiology and Surgery University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, Illinois Teresa M. Kusper, DO, MBS Resident Physician, Department of Anesthesiology Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center Chicago, Illinois There has been growing interest among […]
Read MoreThe 36,527 organ transplants performed in the United States in 2018 set an annual record for the sixth straight year, according to preliminary data from the United Network for Organ Sharing. Since 1988, the first full-year national transplant data were collected, organ transplants have exceeded 750,000. In a press release, UNOS said the number of […]
Read MoreBy Liz Kowalczyk The Boston Globe In 2010, Paul Hawks underwent surgery not because he needed it, but so he could donate most of his liver to a sick brother-in-law. The six-hour operation ended in tragedy when Hawks died on the operating room table at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center. Despite Hawks’s altruistic donation, his brother-in-law, […]
Read MoreAuthor: Lisa Rapaport Even relatively healthy heart failure patients may still be more likely to die after surgery than people with healthier hearts, a U.S. study suggests. For heart failure patients with obvious symptoms, surgery has long been associated with a greater risk of complications and death. But the current study offers fresh evidence that […]
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