Author: Nick Paul Taylor MedTech Dive By targeting ambulatory surgery centers, the company is gearing up to compete with Intuitive Surgical for an emerging opportunity. Dive Brief: Distalmotion said this week that it has raised $150 million to accelerate commercial adoption of its soft-tissue robotic system in the U.S. The Swiss company has received three authorizations for […]
Read MoreAuthor: Francesca Mathewes Becker’s ASC Review Racial disparities in obstetric anesthesia remain an issue in both the U.S. and the United Kingdom regardless of key differences in the two countries’ healthcare systems, according to analysis recently published in Anaesthesia. The analysis looked at data from 13,398,421 patients across 16 observational studies in both the U.S. and the […]
Read MoreAuthors: Nguyen H et al. International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia, 2025 Volume 64 SummaryThis single-center retrospective cohort study evaluated the safety of intravenous deep sedation for dilation and evacuation (D&E) procedures, specifically focusing on medically complex patients and pregnancies beyond 24 weeks’ gestational age. From 2018 to 2024, a total of 1,165 D&E procedures were […]
Read MoreAuthors: Hinton J et al. Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine, 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.accpm.2025.101634 SummaryThis bi-national retrospective cohort study analyzed 12,510 nonagenarians and centenarians admitted to intensive care units over a 15-year period to assess how body mass index (BMI) influences short-term outcomes. Patients were divided into four BMI groups: underweight, normal weight, overweight, and […]
Read MoreAuthors: Crispell E et al. Anesthesia & Analgesia 141(5):964–974, Nov 2025 DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000007435 SummaryThis descriptive observational study outlines the development, launch, and staged expansion of a multidisciplinary preoperative anemia clinic (PAC) at a large tertiary medical center. Preoperative anemia is common, strongly associated with adverse surgical outcomes, and treatable — yet many institutions lack a […]
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