⭐ Recognized by FeedSpot: #12 Best Anesthesiology Blog Worldwide

Uncategorized Published - 24 January, 2019    By - Dr Clemens
Experts Recommend New Way to Describe Cognitive Changes After Anaesthesia, Surgery in Elderly Patients

A multidisciplinary, international group of experts has recommended changing the way clinicians and patients describe cognitive changes experienced in some patients after anaesthesia and surgery. The recommendations are being published simultaneously in 6 peer-reviewed journals including, Anesthesiology, Acta Anaesthesologica Scandinavica, Anesthesia & Analgesia, British Journal of Anaesthesia, Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, and the Journal of […]

Read More
Uncategorized Published - 24 January, 2019    By - Dr Clemens
The beach chair position for shoulder surgery in intravenous general anesthesia and controlled hypotension: Impact on cerebral oxygenation, cerebral blood flow and neurobehavioral outcome

Authors: Aguirre J et al Journal of Clinical Anesthesia (JCA) 53 40-48 (Oct 2018) STUDY OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to assess the impact of intravenous general anesthesia and controlled hypotension on cerebral saturation (rScO 2 ), cerebral blood flow measured as middle cerebral artery blood flow velocity (Vmax MCA) and neurobehavioral outcome […]

Read More
Uncategorized Published - 24 January, 2019    By - Dr Clemens
Diagnosing Heart Failure in the Person with Dyspnea and Preserved Ejection Fraction

Author: Reddy YNV et al. Circulation 2018 May 23 A 10-point risk score based on noninvasive characteristics might be helpful in identifying patients who need further testing. Establishing the diagnosis of heart failure (HF) in people presenting with dyspnea can be challenging when they lack corroborative structural abnormalities like reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) […]

Read More
Uncategorized Published - 23 January, 2019    By - Dr Clemens
Diagnostic Criteria and Characteristics of Spinal Cord Infarction

Authors: Zalewski NL et al. JAMA Neurol 2018 Sep 24 Hyperacute or acute onset was the most consistent clinical symptom. Spinal cord infarction is an underrecognized etiology of myelopathy that is sometimes misdiagnosed as transverse myelitis (NEJM JW Neurol Mar 2018 and Neurology 2018; 90:e96). Investigators reviewed data from 133 adults (median age, 60; interquartile […]

Read More
Uncategorized Published - 23 January, 2019    By - Dr Clemens
Opioids Often Prescribed in the Absence of Pain Diagnosis

Many outpatient opioid prescriptions have no documented medical indication, according to a research letter published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Tisamarie B. Sherry, M.D., Ph.D., from the RAND Corporation in Boston, and colleagues examined the percentage of opioid prescriptions with a documented medical indication between 2006 and 2015 using data from the National Ambulatory […]

Read More