Author: Michael Vlessides Anesthesiology News One of the first studies of its kind has found that primary and functional patencies of arteriovenous fistulas are significantly better when regional, rather than local, anesthesia is used. The study’s Scottish researchers thus recommended the use of brachial plexus block instead of local anesthesia as the anesthetic technique of […]
Read MoreResearchers tap massive database to determine the effects of genes and environment in 560 common conditions Author: Ekaterina Pesheva The Harvard Gazette When it comes to disease and health, which is more powerful — ZIP code or genetic code? The degree to which nature and nurture affect disease and health remains one of the eternal […]
Read MoreI thought this was interesting so I wanted to include it for our readers. Authors: Mandsager K et al. JAMA Netw 2018 Oct Life expectancy increases as aerobic fitness improves with no upper limit of benefit at any age. The generally accepted inverse relation between cardiovascular fitness and adverse cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality has […]
Read MoreA large retrospective study presented here at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) has found that adequate postpartum pain control is associated with a decreased risk of postpartum depression. Recent studies have suggested that epidural analgesia is linked to a reduced risk of postpartum depression. One study of 214 women […]
Read MoreA phase 3 study has found that oliceridine was generally well tolerated in a real-world population of patients with moderate to severe acute pain for whom a parenteral opioid was warranted, according to a study presented here at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA). “I was happy to see that […]
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