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Uncategorized Published - 7 January, 2019    By - Dr Clemens
Pregabalin and Celecoxib Reduced Need for Morphine After Lumbar Spine Surgery

Together, pregabalin and celecoxib demonstrated pain control benefits following lumbar spine fusion surgery, resulting in a lower morphine intake. The results from this randomized, controlled study will be presented at the 2018 World Congress on Pain in Boston, Massachusetts. The focus of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of preemptive pregabalin in combination with celecoxib […]

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Uncategorized Published - 7 January, 2019    By - Dr Clemens
Rethinking Workflow Reduces Cost and Wasted Time, And Improves Patient Experience

Author: Michael Vlessides Anesthesiology News Sometimes budgetary pressure is a good thing. So say clinicians and administrators at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital who, faced with constraints that threatened to shut down a preanesthesia testing center (PAT), instead redesigned patient and work flows throughout the center with a renewed focus on efficiency, cost containment, best practices […]

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Uncategorized Published - 4 January, 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. “…to the extent that propofol–total intravenous anesthesia reduces cancer recurrence … benefit is most probable in patients having major cancer surgery.” Intraoperative mortality is now so low that its rate is hard to measure. In contrast, postoperative mortality remains common, with about 2% of […]

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Uncategorized Published - 4 January, 2019    By - Dr Clemens
What to D.O.: Low-Dose Propofol Safe for Headache (Yes, Headache)

Author: Pescatore, Richard, DO Emergency Medicine News: February 2018 – Volume 40 – Issue 2 – p 1,31–31 Hardly a shift goes by where I don’t see one or more patients complaining of headache. All too often these patients are no strangers to the ED; they’ve been seen multiple times for similar complaints. Depending on who […]

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Uncategorized Published - 4 January, 2019    By - Dr Clemens
Decontaminants Don’t Cut Bloodstream Infection Risk in Ventilated ICU Patients

Author:  ALEXANDRA WARD Contagion Live Infectious Disease Today The use of digestive and oral decontaminants in patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) who are mechanically ventilated and who have moderate to high antibiotic resistance is not associated with a reduction in ICU-acquired bloodstream infections caused by multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria. According to the results of […]

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