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Uncategorized Published - 13 February, 2019    By - Dr Clemens
Outcomes of a Citywide Campaign to Reduce Medicaid Hospital Readmissions With Connection to Primary Care Within 7 Days of Hospital Discharge

Authors: Dawn Wiest, PhD et al   JAMA Netw Open. 2019;2(1):e187369 Question  Is connection to primary care within 7 days of hospital discharge associated with reduced readmissions? Findings  In this cohort study of 1531 hospital discharges among adult Medicaid patients in Camden, New Jersey, patients attending a primary care follow-up appointment as part of the 7-Day Pledge program had fewer 30- […]

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Uncategorized Published - 13 February, 2019    By - Dr Clemens
Blood Pressure and End-tidal Carbon Dioxide Ranges during Aneurysm Occlusion and Neurologic Outcome after an Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

Authors: Annemarie Akkermans, M.D. et al  Anesthesiology 1 2019, Vol.130, 92-105. What We Already Know about This Topic: It remains unknown what end-tidal carbon dioxide and mean arterial pressure are optimal for surgical management of patients with an aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage What This Article Tells Us That Is New: The investigators retrospectively evaluated 1,099 patients who had endovascular […]

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Uncategorized Published - 13 February, 2019    By - Dr Clemens
Triple-low Alerts Do Not Reduce Mortality: A Real-time Randomized Trial

Authors: Daniel I. Sessler, M.D. et al  Anesthesiology 1 2019, Vol.130, 72-82. What We Already Know about This Topic: Intraoperative triple-low events (mean arterial pressure less than 75 mmHg, Bispectral Index less than 45, and minimum alveolar fraction of anesthetic less than 0.8) have been found to be associated with increased risk of mortalityWhat This Article Tells […]

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Uncategorized Published - 13 February, 2019    By - Dr Clemens
Anesthesia and Cancer Recurrence: Context for Divergent Study Outcomes

Authors: Daniel I. Sessler, M.D. et al  Anesthesiology 1 2019, Vol.130, 3-5. Intraoperative mortality is now so low that its rate is hard to measure. In contrast, postoperative mortality remains common, with about 2% of United States surgical inpatients dying within a month—mostly of cardiovascular causes. Longer-term mortality is even more common, with about 5% of […]

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Uncategorized Published - 13 February, 2019    By - Dr Clemens
Practice Advisory for Perioperative Visual Loss Associated with Spine Surgery 2019: An Updated Report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Perioperative Visual Loss, the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society, and the Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care*

I know this is long but this is so important I wanted to give the entire report. Anesthesiology 1 2019, Vol.130, 12-30. Practice advisories are systematically developed reports that are intended to assist decision-making in areas of patient care. Advisories provide a synthesis of scientific literature and analysis of expert opinion, clinical feasibility data, open forum […]

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